Word Count: Adding character description

Today’s question is: how do I describe how character’s look, and what they’re wearing without sounding too obvious.

The details about a character matter a lot toward creating that mental image, and making that character distinctive. Every detail represents a decision that tells the reader who the character is. For example, is the character wearing a t-shirt with an image of Tupac or A Tribe Called Quest? Is their hair in a ‘fro or French braids. The details matter.

How do I work them in there?

I assessed what I knew about my characters by writing out details on index cards. Literally. (See earlier post about the Mulcahy Method).

Unfortunately, this brief process review didn’t answer the question of how to weave the details seamlessly into the text.

1034 words today. Proud of me.