by Lazette Gifford
Description of main characters in first draft stories often fall into two wide categories — far too little or way too much. Writers see their characters and they want their readers to see them, too. However, sometimes they can go too far in description, especially in the main character.
What? Don’t you want the reader to see the main character just as he or she is? Yes, you do. However, you need to consider two things about readers. First, they have vivid imaginations and can ‘see’ characters without every detail drawn in. Second — and the more important of the two — the reader wants to connect with the main character in some way. This may mean that she wants to see the character as herself or she may want to imagine the character as a favorite star. If you give too much description, you erase that connection.
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Help me prove a point
It is super hot today, and it’s days like this one that I can’t wait for fall! So here is a little something in anticipation of cooler weather! The lower left and middle right photos are mine. :)
A comic based on this poem
Fairy tales are more than moral lessons and time capsules for cultural commentary; they are natural law. The child raised on folklore will quickly learn the rules of crossroads and lakes, mirrors and mushroom rings. They’ll never eat or drink of a strange harvest or insult an old woman or fritter away their name as though there’s no power in it. They’ll never underestimate the youngest son or touch anyone’s hairpin or rosebush or bed without asking, and their steps through the woods will be light and unpresumptuous. Little ones who seek out fairy tales are taught to be shrewd and courteous citizens of the seen world, just in case the unseen one ever bleeds over.
S.T. Gibson (via sarahtaylorgibson)
Freya.
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