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Beyond Tall, Dark, and Handsome: How to Describe Characters
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Beyond Tall, Dark, and Handsome: How to Describe Characters

The ability to describe is the key to great storytelling, but when it comes to depicting characters, our first impulse is often to go straight to the basics (height, hair color, clothing) and leave it at that. It’s not that those descriptions are bad, it’s just that they provide surface-level characterization rather than truly characterizing….