The character description is a plot twist in itself 😂

@TwilightSagaCullen

2 ай бұрын

Seriously!!! 😂😂😂😂

@Luna_kuna08

2 ай бұрын

REAL

sometimes at a certain point they add details too late for me to care and I just start ignoring them

@SapphireCat13

2 ай бұрын

Same lol

@steph_matarazzo

2 ай бұрын

Samee!

@mariastrandberg8138

2 ай бұрын

You have exactly one chapter for me; If a character is introduced halfway into the chapter you have until halfway into next chapter. After that I will ignore all character description in favov of my obviously superior vision. May also occur if I misread a name for an entire chapter, looking at you "Daimen"

@user-tcf.orv.tsctir

2 ай бұрын

Same😂

@Doughtnut

Ай бұрын

I never pay attention lol

Ok fellow writers- is it just me or would it just be SOOO much simpler and easier if we just had a page at the beginning of the book with the characters names listed and then below that- information on what they look like? Like I’m tired of trying to sneak in their looks and it never sounds good- 😭

@aellianavandyke7687

2 ай бұрын

With a pronunciation guide, I always glaze over the names while I read only to look at the name again a while later and it to not match what I’d been calling them for half the book

@EbagsAdvocateAvokado

2 ай бұрын

Tbh yeah, that sounds pretty good. Like I'm trying to shove it in but it feels so awkward, LIKE LET ME FOCUS ON THE FIGHT IDC ABT HER EYES

@mominashahzad5372

2 ай бұрын

Are there any good tips on how to add description without moving away from the plot and not making it cheesy asking for a new writer 😅

@aellianavandyke7687

2 ай бұрын

@@mominashahzad5372 a quick description of the main characters appearances at the beginning of the book like a few sentences with general appearance like hair color and eye color anything that makes them stand out but save the details for in the book so that the reader add to the base rather than have to completely change it. You could also have a drawing of them at the beginning of the book along with their name though that might be a bit harder/more expensive to do

Oh my god this is so relevant to the "Red Queen" for me. Each time I think I have a character set on appearance in my mind, The author adds in details that completely throws off my overall design in my head and to be honest it annoys me to an extent.

@lanabougainvillea4596

2 ай бұрын

Right! It constantly messes up my vision so I just ignore the actual descriptions

@ElicrafteeGaming

2 ай бұрын

Exactly! I never pictured Cal the way that Aveyard said that he looked like and it always threw me off when she mentioned his golden eye color.

Bold of you to assume that I would change my image of the character based on the description

@Doughtnut

Ай бұрын

Exactly I just go with the first thing I imagine and ignore all the descriptions

If I have a picture of a character in my head I just ignore the details because I think part of the reading experience is that you get to read it your way. That is also why everyone can have completely different experiences reading the same book.

Lol why aren't you more famous This stuff is so relatable

@steph_matarazzo

2 ай бұрын

🥰🥰 thank you!!

This is too relatable😂

real like i have to change the whole character i hate it

@zo.ilyouu

2 ай бұрын

i don’t- i just pretend the idea i had in my head is the real one 😭

@tiktoksfromkenna

2 ай бұрын

@@zo.ilyouu gaslight yourself😭

Reminds me of when I read "The Lost Hero" for the first time and the entire time, I was imagining him with brown hair for like, 10 chapters of the book 😭

Love your outfit.

@steph_matarazzo

2 ай бұрын

Thank youuu!

My image of the character in my head is based off of the way they act and is usually nothing like the description

This is why I would want to add illustrations of my characters in my own book. Whether that'd be on a page before the next chapter, it would make it so much easier for readers to see what the author made their characters to look like.

One of my favorite books is The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa. There are no physical characters descriptions and nobody has names. Only one character who is referred to as “R”. I didn’t even realize until the middle of the book and it was so much easier for me to follow. I suck with names, especially in fantasy because the names really be random as heck.

i love this because youre in the middle of the book and to me thats literally always the death of my interest. i wanna know the character as they start then see them change. not have it thrown at me in the middle. if it didnt serve a purpose in the beginning, why even now

This is the thing i can’t change that, there is this one boom i stopped reading she had weak grow magic. (Like she can make things grow in seconds with just the seeds). I thought she had red hair,freckles,and was wearing s green skirt with a green fluffy top. When i found out she had green hair brown eyes and wore green i stopped reading. I can’t get over that fact😭

Sometimes the description just seems wrong because the image I've created has been going on for too long! So I end up ignoring it! 😅😂

As the character develops and becomes more dynamic, she morphs into you. 😊

I once read a book where a character was repeatedly described as "pale" but by the first time he was described that way, I was already picturing him as brown so I just...ignored it

These mistakes with the characters’ description is partially the author’s fault since they didn’t describe it good enough. 🤓🤓🤓

@vvitch-mist20

2 ай бұрын

This whole book is probably poorly written. And this is coming from someone who forgot a characters eye color, he has glasses and I have Aphantasia so I don't visualize my writing anymore.

I bet you love these videos, because you guys can dress up in different costumes. Great videos, very entertaining and relatable!

If they don't tell me the correct hair colour of the correct within the first few pages of them appearing, I'm not changing it in my mind

Sometimes, I'm reading a name wrong for the whole book, until like the last chapter when I see an extra o or something. *cough cough Coriolanus Snow*

Real!

Merrr 😍😍😍😍

This is literally why I don't like reading novels. With my work you get a lot of descriptions all at once, and then just basics like "their braided hair stayed out of the way as they snuck in and out of alleyways with the moon overhead being their only light"

Why did I think you were a redhead hahhaa

LMFAOOO

this voice sounds familiar

Meanwhile me: oh, you're a blond? No, not when I think of you. I do it wrong, and I am not ashamed.

What book is this ?????

@steph_matarazzo

2 ай бұрын

😅 I made it up

@Carmila-Carmine.

Ай бұрын

​​@@steph_matarazzo lmaooo 😅 yeah I liked the premise and I thought I'd read it but if you don't mind can I do something similar in a book I'm writing? (It was your idea i don't want to use it or steal it without your consent)

Was that renfaire???

@steph_matarazzo

2 ай бұрын

Yeah!!