Why keep Character Description To A Minimum in Your Opening

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If you’ve written an opening for a character it’s not always wise to start your story with only description. That can be a bit boring – like looking at a still-life painting, or out the car window at a building you’re approaching. It’s static.

Writing out a description of your MC usually has very little movement to it. Plus, the most common thing that novices do is step away from the scene while they’re telling their readers about the colour of someone’s hair, or the clothes that they wear. If you’re going to tell us about those things, make them do double duty by reflecting either the character’s state of being, or the tone you’re trying to get across in your narrative voice.

Gus Sanchez commented recently:

I like to keep descriptions about people’s physical appearances to a minimum, unless there’s something about their physical appearance that drives their character…

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I’ve had a tough time keeping up with everything as there has been so much going on. But, I’m off work from Friday for a whole 10 days. So I am hoping I can fill you all in 🙂 

 

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This might only be a short one, but finally we have some wonderful sun. It stayed over the weekend into the bank holiday and was glorious. It continued today and was lovely out and about on my working run. 

Paul’s making progress with Bobby. He managed to get him out the cage to fly to him. Yey! 

Everything else is going well so far. 🙂 This week is looking up. 

Two more to go and I’m on holiday as well. The countdown begins, lol. 

 

Speak soon… 

 

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Been a busy week.

I can’t get past this hurdle of intense emotional, financial and weird amounts of stress. I haven’t been able to do much writing or editing, but I’ve done lots of reading and catching up with things. 

This last couple of weeks in total have just been crazy. 

This week, started out a little better. But then on Wednesday kinda went down hill. Both at work and home I broke my van at work, and then my car. 😦 

Came home and mum had been in bed all day, sick. Which isn’t like her, so then worried all day on thurs about her and the cost of our car. 

Friday and mum was no better, I called the surgery to try and get her a doctor out and to be honest they really weren’t interested. Told me some meds to get her and didn’t quite tell her some others. So at least by today she’s feeling a bit better. 

The car cost a small fortune to get fixed, but seems okay now. All fish are good. And Bobby has been out the cage again 🙂 He’s now in his new one although a little tired from all the exercise yesterday. 

Here’s a picture for you all. 🙂Image

He loved my head…. tee hee. Silly Bobby. 🙂 I was a little scared at first but he seemed happy so he stayed there for over ten mins. 

Hope everyone else is good. 🙂 

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