Kayla
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Madeline Martin:
Hi! I absolutely LOVED your book The Keeper of Hidden Books! (I'm still so sad about the ending! 🥺) But I'm writing my own story, I have quite a few chapters done! But I have a few things I'm having trouble with. How do I describe characters better? And honestly just put more description in... Everything? (Or at least things that need to be described.) I can make a good story, but I need help on description.
Madeline Martin
Hi, Kayla :) I apologize for my delay in replying.
I'm so glad you enjoyed The Keeper of Hidden Books :) (and for what it's worth, I cried when I wrote it!)
Congratulations on writing your own story!! :) Regarding character descriptions, a couple of things help: put together a back story for EVERY character that has more than a couple of speaking parts, you want to know their hopes and dreams, their flaws, their trauma, their fears, their childhood, etc. It will help out with having fleshed out characters. Regarding how to describe them, try to use their actions and the things they say to describe more about them than just their physical appearance, or incorporate their personality/history into their physical appearance description (a scar with a history that might come up later, a smile always hovering at the ready, a hard set to their jaw, shoulders that hunch forward, that kind of thing).
Also, check out YouTube! There are tons of videos on about every aspect of writing you can think of :)
Best of luck with it!! :)
I'm so glad you enjoyed The Keeper of Hidden Books :) (and for what it's worth, I cried when I wrote it!)
Congratulations on writing your own story!! :) Regarding character descriptions, a couple of things help: put together a back story for EVERY character that has more than a couple of speaking parts, you want to know their hopes and dreams, their flaws, their trauma, their fears, their childhood, etc. It will help out with having fleshed out characters. Regarding how to describe them, try to use their actions and the things they say to describe more about them than just their physical appearance, or incorporate their personality/history into their physical appearance description (a scar with a history that might come up later, a smile always hovering at the ready, a hard set to their jaw, shoulders that hunch forward, that kind of thing).
Also, check out YouTube! There are tons of videos on about every aspect of writing you can think of :)
Best of luck with it!! :)
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Laura Willyard
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Madeline Martin:
Madeline - another comment/question. I would eve liked The book to be a bit longer :O) in order to better complete the stories of Grace and George, and all the other characters we met in your book! I hated to see it end. Have you considered doing a sequel? To tell how Grace, George, Viv ect... others faced the post war years in London and more of what maybe Viv and George did in the war?! hint hint
Laura Willyard
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Madeline Martin:
Currently reading "The Last Bookshop in London" and loving it! I have been to that part of London and you have captured it. :O) did you live there at one time? When I return to London ( we usually stay in Bloomsbury - due to the proximity to British Library and Museum and bookshops.) I plan to take a walk to the Primrose hill area to discover such bookshops Please write more books like this one!
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