Dear Writers,
One of the major problem in writing is the description of characters or how to imaginate the characters and sometimes we spend an important time on drawing characters' details in our mind than writing actions to move the story forwards.
You can easily overcome those situations by only using stage32 and few descriptions.
The first things to consider after writing the logline, synopsis and outilines of the acts is to detect which characters play an important role in the story.
If they are important, that means you need to put some descriptions when introucing them. In screenwriting, description inducing imagination in the head of the reader should only pertain to special effects, items, monsters, species and fictional places linked to sci-fi or fantasy....
So one of the things I do once I know how my important characters act in the story is looking at actors profiles of Stage32 to see if their facials expressions match with the role of my characters. if it matches, I may select few things of their phenotypes and apply it in the description of my characters so that whenever the story move forwards, I can visualize my characters.
Visualizing a characters deepen your engagement in your writing as well.
When the characters is not important, you can use adjectives and talk about what their wears.
Regards.
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Introduce your character 'in action'.
Yeah this is what I do.
I do the Craig Mazin method, gender, age, race, hair and makeup.
How you get that information across is your skill. I used list attributes. But as my skills improved I found more interesting way of getting the info to the reader.
That's an interesting method but it may spills over several lines if you are describing a non-human being. But in these cases, I rely on the imagination of the reader.
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Habou Adi Said what does an angry sky look like? I guarantee in Australia we have a different take.
Your craft will enable get an image across in as few words as possible. Action lines will introduce depth in a character, even a monster.
Don’t leave things to the readers imagination. They will paint a picture even when you describe something well. But letting them design an image with no guidance from you is poor writing.
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Great post
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Thank you mista.
Craig, an angry sky may be like the beginning of a tornado or storm. That's sound like telling with figure of speech.
If I wanted to show storm or natural phenomena, I would probably do it like this.
Below the darken sky yelling with thunders, the trees bend and animals are panicked....
I was trying to emphasis on the importance of showing as a newbie.
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You should give a brief description so the reader can put a picture of that character in their mind. For main characters I provide a little more detail than I do for small characters. Character descriptions are an excellent opportunity to be creative and make your characters come alive. Character descriptions are a place where it is “okay” to describe what you can’t see on screen.