[stylist] Question for fiction writers.

[Andi]

You could talk to a hair stylist to learn what that specific hair cut and
style is called if you don't know, as in "He had a short brown crew cut," or
you could describe it in terms of association like "His unruly light brown
curls gave him the look of a surfer."  Another way to do it would be to
describe it full on as in "His straight auburn hair was combed circularly
from the top of his head outward so that strands spread out evenly around
his head.  It landed just behind the top of his ear, softening his facial
features."  One other way I can think of to describe it would be to describe
what he does with it, as in "His shoulder length sandy brown hair was tided
back in a low ponytail," or "Rich dark brown hair was gelled in to spikes
sporadically around his head."  I am not sure what your character looks like
so all of these are very different but it is good to know shades of brown as
well as hair styles and cuts.  I don't know if this helps.  If not can you
be more specific in what you are looking for?  You could try to describe him
and submit it to the list and ask if people can picture him or not, we all
might be able to help better if we know what you are doing with the
character.

Andi
-----Original Message-----
From: stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Alan Wheeler
Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2012 3:59 PM
To: 'Writer's Division Mailing List'
Subject: Re: [stylist] Question for fiction writers.

Well, specificially, in the case of one character, I don't want to say just
that he has brown hair, but try to describe the haircut/style and am not
sure how.
 

-----Original Message-----
From: stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Andi
Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2012 2:57 PM
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Subject: Re: [stylist] Question for fiction writers.

I usually picture the character in my head as I want them to be and describe
what I see.  I usually do not describe a character all in one shot but try
to spread it out a bit so you can get more detail with out being boring.
Also I try to incorperate something about their looks while describing a
mannerism so the look and mannerism help support the other.  This is not
always possible but when I can, I do.  Also I like to use similes when
describing people.  To me people remind me of different animals in certain
instances like if a persons face is really long it might be like a horse.  I
described one of my characters' as being strong, lean, and graceful like an
panther.  If a person is really lazy and slobbish I might say the character
is as wide as the double stuffed recliner they live in with their potato
chips.  I described another character as having high delicate cheek bones
sheathed in Carmel colored skin.  Obvious the reader needs to know more
about how these characters' look and act but that is how I start.  I hope it
helps.  If not what more specifically do you mean? 
-----Original Message-----
From: stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Alan Wheeler
Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2012 11:00 AM
To: stylist at nfbnet.org
Subject: [stylist] Question for fiction writers.

Hi,
Big question for the fiction writers among us.
What kind of process do you use when creating characters and describing what
they look like? For the book I am attempting to write, I have two doctor
characters, and I am trying to picture what they look like in my mind's eye,
for one thing, and how to describe those looks.

For anyone with enough vision, the one doctor character is, actually based
on an actor who played a doctor in the 80's TV series St. Elsewhere. If you
remember Dr. Craig (a.k.a William Daniels the voice of K.I.T.T from Knight
Rider), he would look and kind of talk like him. Can anyone help?
"The kind of work God usually calls you to is the kind of work that you need
most to do and that the world most needs to have done.The place God calls
you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's  deep hunger
meet."
- Frederick Buechner's definition of "vocation" in his little book "Wishful
Thinking"
Psalms 33:3 Psalms 150:5


Alan Wheeler
Lincoln, Nebraska
awheeler65 at windstream.net
http://twitter.com/#!/Country_Storm

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