What characters look like

One of the magical parts of being a writer of fiction is that you get to create characters. Even historical figures, where there might be an image to base the externals on and some letters and historical accounts, leave a lot of room for interpretation.

But it struck me, as I’m reading the wonderful Kate Quinn’s The Alice Network where one of her main characters stutters, how my image of my main non-historical characters always assumes that they are attractive. I suppose this is partly wantin...