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Fighting to Be Blonde: Making character description more interesting

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message 1: by Erica (new)

Erica Ellis (ericainmn) | 48 comments Your readers need to have some idea what your characters look like, so how do you tell them without boring them? Click the link for tips!

http://www.inkdeepediting.com/#!Fight...

Erica Ellis
Ink Deep Editing
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message 2: by Emme (new)

Emme  (emmepangala) Good post, Erica. I would be inclined to add a suggestion that authors refrain from describing people of color using food/flavor/wood/stone stereotypes (caramel, mocha, milk chocolate, mahogany, alabaster, pearl,ebony, etc.).

Emme


message 3: by Erica (new)

Erica Ellis (ericainmn) | 48 comments Good point, Emme. Thanks for the advice!

Glad you liked the post!


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