Today, I realised how little I knew about my own characters. During french lesson, Anne saw me writing the draft for Noweli's profile. I had written out the colour of his eyes and hair and was wondering about his height when she went:"What about nose?"
"Nose?"
"Yeah, is his nose flat or sharp?"
"Um..."( no idea)"strong. His nose is strong"
I like the word strong. Saves me the trouble of thinking up new descriptions.
"His mouth? Is is wide or small? Soft or hard?"
That sounds wrong. But I was past caring that. I was desperately thinking up some substitute word for strong.
"well...his mouth is firm."
That sound really wrong.
Anne went on to interrogate me about his favourite book, favourite car, favourite food and whether he had chest hair.
"How would I know?"
She said that I was supposed to know as he was my character.
Oh well.
So now I am creating a profile for Noweli to show that I do know about my own character.
Or at least pretend to know.
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