I totally lost count in how many times I read stories with a original character being the focus of attention. But I do remember how many times I've come across those that always start with an introduction with the main character describing themselves.
It always starts with them introducing themselves and than stating how old they are and than a description of what they look like with a brief (or not so brief) details about their social status and family life. It's nice to know but that's not the first thing I want to see in a story. The way I see it, it makes much more sense to introduce a character in action and let the readers find out for themselves. Really!
I would totally love to read how she starting her first year of high school and always looking up at majority of the characters. This tells me she's 15 or 16 and that she's short. It's not that difficult for someone to do. You'll just have to go right into the story and keep going. After all subtle hints help to get out information about the character and it's a lot better than feeding it to the readers all at once because it doesn't feel like we're being b***h slap.
For example: If a characters makes a comment like, "I got you that blue shirt you wanted. I have to admit, the color is surprising similar to your eyes."
There you go. You subtly hinted that the main character's eyes is blue without throwing a bio in our faces. There's many ways to hint about the character's appearance and life without having a giant text of doom introducing them first thing in the story.
Maybe later I'll come back and add more examples of subtly hinting about the character in the story itself.
 DamnBlackHeart · Fri Dec 18, 2009 @ 11:29pm · 0 Comments |
