How to Write a Character DESCRIPTION (+ how to make your character describe herself) 

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My Immortal is certainly scary in a certain way.

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laughed out loud at "Maybe I just didn't see enough faces yet (I hardly ever go out)." < SAME HONESTLY HAHA. I agree 100% and that's something I actually should have mentioned in this video - readers will see the story at the pace it takes them to read the narrative! So if you go into a long description, it just hits the pause button on everything. ugh.

It sometimes helps to draw the characters. When I drew mine I actually saw the obvious peculiarities of their faces. As an example I have a female Mentor named Daan in one of the books I‘m currently writing. After drawing her I saw that she has a striking number of birthmarks (10 in the face alone), that would actually be pretty notably if you stood right in front of her, as well as colored dreads that have wooden marbles with little shapes on them (like one has a heart, another one has a moon, while the third one has flowers on it etc.). And like a previously broken nose that wasn’t fixed well is also something you would notice when seeing her. Actually I think her face looks pretty long in comparison to other characters and she has a defining chin, as well as small but longish eyes. Since the Protagonist is also an artist, I describe that he notices little reflections on the cheekbones, like when someone wears something light, I myself always notice the reflections so why shouldn’t he? Or when Daan wears Make up, does it make the eyes pop up etc. since he knows color theory he could notice something like this. Even tho I think it has to be split up. Like what fit‘s the situation he is in right know. So basically when you draw the characters you improve the character design even more and can add some points that would be noticeable or your design already has those and you just couldn’t picture them in your head. It‘s pretty helpful.

so. .. william guile is american, therefore he's a black guy who plays basketball. (pff)

@@grilled_platypus So now I just need to figure out how to draw a person.

Lots of faces on the internet.

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And if there's a movie, the character never looks like I imagined them to, and it wraps my own image of the character really badly. ;_;

@@YuliaLeafhill God Knows how I'm suffering with the actor choice for Finch, from All the bright places

A BLOND KAVINSKY?? I can get behind this.

I read a book where they only described the character towards the end and I thought they look TOTALLY different-

Yes! Or like the shadow guy in the first chapter of Eragon! Like yes the movie was trash, but they completely destroyed my image of him… was his name Durza? I imagined him with curly orangish hair and a more humanoid face, but in the movie they made him look like some kind of Zombie with straight extremely unnatural red hair and some… I don’t know where those supposed to be tatoos he had on his face? They looked like his facial skin simply peeled of and he had to glue it back on his forehead.

So glad this video came at the right time for you!!

So cool! Have you got any ideas/manuscripts you want to publish?

Lmaooo, I do hope you don't include those types of examples

@@nabilamiah3814 I honestly don't do it like that now, those were examples I used when I was like nine dude lol

@@HomeschoolerGoesPublic Ohhhh, okay, because I personally think those examples are very contrived and nonsensical. Who hates their hair because it's too red? You know?

@@nabilamiah3814 😂agreed

ANSWER: Brainstorm how you can show their inner conflict in an interesting way in the first few chapters & go so crazy with the "why does it matter" thing Abbie always talks about and fix it up in your reread (sorry I'm a year late)

That's a great idea!

Thank you so much!! I'm so glad you found this video helpful 😊

dellieborton me too!

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dellieborton Me too I love Abbie’s videos so much!

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@@AbbieEmmons you're welcome girl! Thank you for working so hard on your channel!

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@@AbbieEmmons Your welcome 💙😊

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OMG. Your teacher knows Abbie. I ❤ them. English teacher or writing teacher? (All English/writing teachers need to know Abbie)

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How do you get people to not glorify villainous actions? Well, some people are just going to think what they're going to think, but for the majority, show the raw reality of it. Don't sugarcoat it or romanticize it. The problem is that some people sugarcoat or romanticize what this person has done. People try to make it comfortable. Your goal is to make it uncomfortable. Make your readers stare it right in the face. Don't make it easy for them or for yourself. If your writing makes you uncomfortable, you know it'll probably make someone else uncomfortable. I know we've all probably desensitized ourselves to some things, so maybe you won't always be able to tell. Sometimes, it's a good idea to get a second opinion. But remember, when your character does something horrible, make your readers uncomfortable. Don't let fear of what people will think hold you back.

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I love how her books are grouped by book colour 😊

personally it can be a character flaw. mc's dont have to be good role models

Thank you!! 💛✨

Thanks, Elizabeth! These aren't ideas I took from anyone - they're just methods I've personally used and found helpful. 😊

Thank YOU! 💛