Describing your CharactersDescribing your CharactersWhen it comes to characters, we writers have a certain goal: to bring these people to life in the readers' imaginations. But for this to work, two things need to happen. 1) The character needs personality. 2) The readers need to be able to visualize the character as they read.The first is achieved through characterization, while the second is traditionally thought to be achieved through physical description. What I’d like to discuss in this journal entry, however, is how physical description also needs to contribute to a character’s personality, and how it’s actually characterization, more than anything, that helps the readers visualize a character.Character Description:Take a look at the following example.1) When I entered Mr. Jed's office, he stood and smiled at me. He had a big nose and short, brown hair. He wore a dark suit. I shook his hand. What do you know about Mr. Jed from this br
The Painter's DaughterLucy's mother is a painter. It is marvellous how she does it. a scuffed trainer-shoe and a pallett with primary colours studded like diamantes on it. There's a vision in that woman's head and she carries it to the easel and splashes her thoughts onto it. A Greek god, an odyssey of shades and a thousand ways to say 'art' in two brushstrokes.Artists need watercolours, Lucy thinks, and she sits down with her canvases and she tries to mimic. There is a seaside when she is done with the pencils, but the waves don't lap back and forth on sand grains and not-yet-eroded rocks. Disappointment, she figures, is something an artist has to get used to,
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