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PostPosted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 2:32 pm 
josephusmaximus3 wrote:
Except you are assuming his eyes are open. What if he is sleeping? You don't see his eye color. It would be better written "If one were to meet his gaze, one might notice..."


Overly verbose. Unnecessary.


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PostPosted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 8:12 am 
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Thank you!

It's all good advice.
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 6:40 pm 
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This figure before you has a rather animalistic in his appearance at
first glance.  His straight, silky, shoulder length black hair is set free
and waves in all directions like a flowing black cowl of shadow, covering
his slightly pointed ears.  His shoulders are broad and well toned.  As is
the rest of his body, the visible flesh stretched tightly over his rippling
muscles.  While not large in actual bulk, being 6 feet in height, the sheer
appearance of such devotion to fitness increases the appearance of his size.
His chin seems to come to a shrewd point under his thick lower lip.  His
upper lip is thinner, often revealing his teeth and his nose is wide and
intrusive.  Far more striking then all of this, under his thick, almost
bushy brows, are two deep set yellow eyes with black voids where there are
normally white, much like a ravens, held up by large, purple bags.   


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Broad and bold are this man's shoulders which frame his ample bulk.  His
course flesh, riddled with the lines of old age and scars, ripples over his
well toned topography.  His crown is host to a once silky black cowl, now
grizzled with age.  It hangs draped around his angular featured face,
flanking his powerful maw.  Above sleepless bags, below his bushy brow, and
set deep in the caves of his orbital sockets lie in wait his menacing yellow
fires, set ablaze on black coals.  Demonic and raven-like, they violate the
deepest and darkest of places like great voids that hunger to be filled.   


Obviously the new one is better, but by how much, I'm not sure. I think the advice here is good. Try to be cut and dry, but still have fun with it. Don't tell people what to think and feel. I find it much more fun to use words that create imagery, though some might dissagree.

*shrugs* Tell me what you think?


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PostPosted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 9:40 pm 
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It's a matter of opinion, but I like the first one better. It does a bunch of things right: It starts off with something that describes the character as a whole. It describes features one at a time at a nice level of detail. It doesn't inflict kooky sentence structure on the reader. It just needs the odd sentence split as well as fewer extraneous words and trivial details. (For example, the first sentence would be all the stronger as: "This figure appears animalistic at first glance.") But it's essentially good.

The second one is, well, poetic. I'm looking for a photograph of the character, and you're giving me an abstract painting. What do bold shoulders look like? Was freely rippling flesh over the guy's surface really the image you wanted? How did I discover his eyes violated really dark places? The kind of writing that pleases literary English teachers tends to annoy those reading quickly for information.


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I've been putting off the eventual last description for Carmen for months now, and this thread is the perfect place to make somebody else do it!

Seriously. Any ideas? She's supposed to be a: plague bearer, from the ice age, unnaturally strong, and still Carmen.

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This thing has many layers of slime oozing from it. They very in color from gray, to green, to brown, to white. She has one eyes that is larger than the other and both are violet. She is not that tall, maybe 4 feet at most, but is amazingly large. Her shoulder muscles bulge for three feet in eigther direction. Her hair, or what is left of it, is tied in a short pony-tail. Larges pimples and other blemishes dot the under-side of this woman-things jowels. Her top lip is covreed by an ever so delicate peace-fuzz that is actually more like a full head of hair, this is also tied into a short pony tail. This second tail hangs between two orc-like incisors and is matted with the greenish drool that continuall runs out of the mouth of this Wyyna. There is one tattoo on this beast and that is "I AM A GIRL!'. Stenciled directly on a broad, sloping, forhead no one could miss it.


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You are SO damn lucky I don't know your character.

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BURN IN HELL FOR ALL ETERNITY, INFIDEL!!!


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