Vary Your Character Descriptions (Guest Post)

Kristy wrote an article about adding variety, personality, and emotion to character descriptions for Utah Freelance Editors. Below is an excerpt.
You can read the whole thing here.

Describing characters can be difficult work, but some authors unintentionally make the task more difficult by sticking to a driver’s-license-style checklist of traits about their characters—gender, hair and eye color, height, etc. This focus normally comes from an impulse to describe characters so readers will have clear images in their minds.

But using the same traits or describing characters solely in informational terms can make it harder for readers to remember things about individual characters and can hamper reader reactions and connections.

Instead, try out a few of these strategies to more efficiently create emotional situations and characters that delight and connect with your readers.

Interested? Read the full article on the Utah Freelance Editors website.