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Describing the Main Character

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Wordmaker:

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That said, what is worse is getting halfway through the book as a reader, and discovering your mental image in no way matches with the character.  There's one or two cases where that might be the POINT of the story, but outside of that, I don't like thinking a character has, say, green eyes and curly red hair only to find out they really have straight black hair and brown eyes.

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This drives me nuts! If I form an idea of a character in my mind, I find it really hard to change it, and whenever I read a bit that contradicts my personal image of them I find it really annoying.

the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:

--- Quote from: Dom on June 28, 2013, 04:17:00 AM ---That said, what is worse is getting halfway through the book as a reader, and discovering your mental image in no way matches with the character.

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Personally, I love that, if the book's been playing fair all along.

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