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Posted on July 19, 2012February 12, 2013

What Do Your Characters Look Like?

One of the hardest things for me as a writer is to describe the physical appearance of my characters. I grudgingly understand the need to do so, if only because I’ve had readers complain that they don’t know what my characters look like.

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