Today’s re-blog feature is from Julie Eshbaugh on her blog Pub (lishing) Crawl… I love the title!
http://www.publishingcrawl.com/2012/05/17/revealing-character-through-details/
It is part of the art of story writing to describe our characters in such a way our readers can make up their own mental image of them. The trick is to ensure you give your reader enough description without over doing it and boring them – or worse still taking them out of the narrative.
What devices do you use for characterization?
This link from James Thayer is awesome for characterization points:
http://www.authormagazine.org/articles/thayer_james_2009_08_15.htm
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June 27, 2014 at 1:40 pm
Reblogged this on The BiaLog and commented:
This is an awesome post to help bring your characters to life.
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June 27, 2014 at 2:14 pm
Thanks!
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June 27, 2014 at 4:16 pm
You’re welcome. 🙂
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June 18, 2014 at 12:30 pm
Thanks for sharing my post, Mandy. I love the Character Cube!
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June 18, 2014 at 12:10 pm
Great picture! The Character Cube pic definitely helps.
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