on Live Write Thrive:

Characters in fiction are the heart of any story. We all love characters that pop off the page, that resonate with us, that we empathize with and root for. Surely, to get readers to care about characters, writers of fiction have to describe them.

But there are pitfalls to describing characters. Today’s fiction is all about “show, don’t tell,” so dropping in a laundry list of character attributes into a scene is a no-no. There are masterful ways to describe characters, and it’s a skill that requires a lot of effort and practice.

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