- The secret was revealed, but it didn’t make anything better.
- Outdoors in the middle of the night, barefoot, he/she/they twice crossed the rough ground between the orphanage and the empty house.
- “Everyone knows,” the elf said, “and they blame you. Don’t feel bad.”
- I would rather listen to a jackhammer breaking rock than to hear that name again.
- Snow White said, “Happy endings aren’t all they’re cracked up to be.”
Miss Maddox says:
Does anyone have tips for describing the MC’s appearance in a first person POV story? I feel like it can be really hard to make it sound natural. Most of the time when I think about my own appearance, I’m thinking about things that change, like my facial expression or outfit, but in a story, the reader also needs to know the character’s general appearance that doesn’t change. How do you bring that up without it sounding weird? And how early should you bring it up? I normally describe my characters close to the beginning, but in first person stories there’s not always a good reason to bring it up immediately. If you wait, though, then your reader is lost trying to imagine them, which isn’t what I want.