Vilageidiotx

I made a 1x1 interest check because I'm a terrible human being

I actually own a sweatshop of Taiwanese writers. Unfortunately they write everything in Traditional Chinese and the text must be translated before I can do anything with it.

@Dinh AaronMk

Lucky you, there is google translate.

Horrible pick-up lines

"Baby, if I could rearrange the alphabet, I'd put I inside U."

@The Mad Hatter

"Baby, if I could rearrange the alphabet, i'd but the D inside your vagina."

I made a 1x1 interest check because I'm a terrible human being

Oh, no. Nobody in spam can write. That is our most horrible secret - we are all frauds.

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What category do I belong in guys

@Leysos

Oldfag. I think you can be one of those now.

QUEST: oh right that was a thing

>Equip skull
>Pretend to be skull hero

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I was reading this thread thinking "Come on Vilage, you can do this. How do you make all of this more cringey and awkward?" and then the 'oldfucks' stuff popped up and I realized "Oh yeh, that is how."

What is your favorite Time period

Well, I was alive for the last two months of the eighties, and I was born the same week the wall fell, so if you have any questions just ask.

Character Descriptions

And sometimes there is a place for really detailed descriptions too. If those specific details matter to the plot, or if you are writing in the perspective of someone who is attracted to the character you are describing, then it makes sense.

I suppose most of the time, I go at it in the same way I think of people when I see them in real life. Height and weight only come to mind if they are noticeably different, and what I note the most will ultimately be one or two unique features. If they are especially unassuming, I might not notice anything, and likewise an unassuming character might end up with no descriptions at all. Conversely, if I were to write a description based on @Altered Tundra's J-Law signature, i'd probably end up going into more detail because i'd be noticing more detail... for blatantly obvious reasons.

Of course, none of that matters if you don't write in any sort of character description at all, but that is my two centers anyway.

What is your favorite Time period

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Or -- let's be honest here -- most parts of Asia, for most of recorded history.

@mdk

Well, if we are going that direction, none of us should probably leave the modern world. It's only downhill from here.

Character Descriptions

The reason is because most of this stuff isn't necessarily important. An overly detailed description can very easily become like slamming on the breaks when it comes to pacing. Everybody has their own happy medium, whether it be vague descriptors or cherry picking some details they think help the reader picture the character.

Personally, I think it looks silly when you start bringing numbers into descriptions. Like "Mary Sue was 6 foot 7 inches." or "John Doe was 152 pounds." This isn't crazy unprofessional or anything, i've seen published writers I really like do this plenty of times, but for me personally it always seems clinical as fuck. The weirdest I seen is B/W/H measurements for women.

My own way of doing descriptions is to pick out a few features that stand out and otherwise stay vague. Something like "Robertito was a stocky, big-boned man with an oily handlebar mustache and eyes that gave the impression that he was way too clever for his own good."