Creating Realistic Characters, pt. 4

If looks could kill…

I’ve read stories where every minute detail of a characters appearance was described over pages of narrative. I’ve read stories where a characters physical details where hardly mentioned at all.

Regardless of the detail, the characters believability was aided or hampered by its consistency with their environment.

Remember the movie Legend? If you watch the director’s cut and listen to the commentary by the director, Riddely Scott, he will relate a moment when he proposed por...