“Unraveling Secrets: How ‘Carriage Hill’ Transforms Ordinary Lives into Extraordinary Tales”
I know it’s a book but in Gone Girl, here’s Gillian Flynn describing the female cop who comes to the house after Amy’s disappearance: “The woman was surprisingly ugly — brazenly, beyond the scope of everyday ugly: tiny round eyes set tight as buttons, a long twist of a nose, skin spackled with tiny bumps, long lank hair the color of a dust bunny.”
When you are specific, the character becomes special in the reader’s head. The reader can imagine them, see them as a real person.
SPECIFIC = SPECIAL
Let’s stop making the mistake of describing characters with generalities and platitudes (“a bear of a man”).
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