Just another blonde...

[sweetnpetite]

What do you do to insure that your characters are more than just another blonde/brunette/redhead?

What are the details that you like to include that you feel really bring your characters to life?

 

[Weird Harold]

What do you do to insure that your characters are more than just another blonde/brunette/redhead?

What are the details that you like to include that you feel really bring your characters to life?

The list is pretty long, but one of the key points is to work against the stereotypes when I can. I write dumb brunettes, passive redheads, sultry and mysterius blondes, etc. -- that of course if I bother making a point of hair color.

I try to give characters quirks and flaws and distinctive likes and dislikes.

 

[Wildcard Ky]

I spend a lot of time on what they think and feel. The physical description becomes secondary to the thoughts and feelings.

 

[sweetnpetite]

bump.

 

[Dar~]

The only time I use a physical trait to define a character is when I am doing the generic stroke stuff. Like blonde Bimbo, fiery redhead. When I am truly passionate about a character, their beauty comes from personality adn life experiences. I have to know my characters in my longer stories.

 

[BlackShanglan]

I'm with Wildcard on the feelings and emotions. I'm probably to the extreme on that one. In three of my stories the reader never has any real idea of what the speaker looks like, and in one of them the actual species is (deliberately) not revealed until a couple of thousand words in. I remembered to mention hair color in Pope's diary, but it only made it in near the end.

Voice is the most important thing to me. Most of my stories have been first person narrations, and the other good ones are heavily voiced third person. How someone talks, to me, establishes more about what I want to know than what s/he looks like. I want a strong personality coming through.

I sometimes do style too, although that is less common. In the current novel in progress, I'm working on a character who is a budding poet of the Decadance as well as a child of considerable privilege. I can't imagine him without the consciously Bohemian jacket of peacock blue silk, the long hair and the Oriental-ish mustache calculated to annoy his father.

Shanglan

 

[English Lady]

To me this is a redundant question as hair colour is just whatever i decide for the character...hair colour doesn't define my character at all. So I do everything I can to not focus on physical attributes like hair...unless it's part of the story *L*

(my hubby adores redheads. I bet i've got a fair few redheads in my stories *l*)

 

[NoJo]

What do you do to insure that your characters are more than just another blonde/brunette/redhead?

What are the details that you like to include that you feel really bring your characters to life?

If she's the slave, I make her blonde. If she's the mistress I make her black-haired. If it's not not a d/s story I normally leave her bald.

 

[Op_Cit]

What do you do to insure that your characters are more than just another blonde/brunette/redhead?

What are the details that you like to include that you feel really bring your characters to life?

I try to mix it up and add color with traits such as "big tits", "blowjob lips", "Nymphomaniac/Bisexual/exhibitionist", and "an ass that...", and sometimes they have brown eyes.


(Yes, this is a feeble attempt at wit.)

Most of what I do is in personality, but I have one story I'm working on in which physical traits drive fundamental aspects of personality and the storyline. It's a bit ambitious.

 

[rgraham666]

Usually, the physical description of my female characters puts them a little outside 'the norm'. Either zaftig or on the small side.

The only 'standard' major female character I've written wasn't a sympathetic one.

Male characters tend to look like me, although I'm working on changing that.

Beyond that, I spend more time on their internal life than their physical appearance. I usually describe what a character looks like near the beginning of the story. (Too often using that 'mirror' trick. Please don't whip me massa) After that, emotions come to the fore.