Why are so many books utterly and totally lacking in physical descriptions of characters?
Why are so many books utterly and totally lacking in physical descriptions of characters?
Bonus points if the author first mentions a specific trait, physical build, or whatever else halfway through the novel and totally fucks up my mental image.
I don't expect a biology model description for each character, but write me something brief and evocative of how they should look, you fucking dork author. I don't even know how tall she should be, her hair colour, anything. Why are you like this, author?
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I vaguely remember avoiding detailed descriptions of my characters writing fanfic because I didn't want people to think I was horny for my characters. So I went pretty far in the other direction.
Oooh-la-la, a potbelly, so sexy ~
idk man, I was a kid trying to avoid any accusation of sexuality in fan fiction.
And I was just commenting an absurd example of a character description, that might make people hot and bothered for their characters, to bring some levity
>writing fanfic
>not horny
In seriousness though, would describing your characters inherently imply awooga on your part??
People could claim that and I was very cagey. Still am, but in different ways