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Daily archive for April 23, 2025

Description through characterization

On April 23, 2025   /   Writing  
Tags: description, how-to, technique

For many readers, one of the more effective ways of describing a scene is through the viewpoint character. The technique is a sub-category of “description as seasoning,” which I talked about last post, but it’s hard to describe in a brief paragraph. Hence this post. The first

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