: Re: Whether to describe personality of a character or let the readers deduce it based on the actions I am facing this situation where description of the personality of a character is quite important.

Well, if you don't have time or space in your story to show some aspect of a character's personality, why bother with it? Does it matter if your character refuses to shop at Walmart because of their abusive business practices if the story is about how he hates strawberries?

If the characteristic is that important to the story, then yes, you need to spend the time and content showing us.

The other problem is that you may run into what's called an "informed characteristic," which is when the writer tells us that the character is X (for example, brave and daring), and the other characters treat him like he's brave and daring, but we only see the character being nervous and risk-averse.

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: EvilSoup is right. If you've got English grammar and spelling down--the meat and potatoes of any language--then the next step is to practice it. 'Literary' American English is so wonderfully

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: I'd call that development. It covers everything in Dale's excellent list and dmm's couch time.

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: If you can't boil down your novel into a logline (or "elevator pitch," which is how I learned it), then you may actually have a problem with your novel. You've provided the structure of

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: No, you can only do that if you're making some sort of break or shift in narrative style. If the story switches to a dream, for instance, or if the characters enter a Fae realm or another

: Re: Whether to describe personality of a character or let the readers deduce it based on the actions I am facing this situation where description of the personality of a character is quite important.

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: EvilSoup is right. If you've got English grammar and spelling down--the meat and potatoes of any language--then the next step is to practice it. 'Literary' American English is so wonderfully

: I'd call that development. It covers everything in Dale's excellent list and dmm's couch time.

: If you can't boil down your novel into a logline (or "elevator pitch," which is how I learned it), then you may actually have a problem with your novel. You've provided the structure of

: No, you can only do that if you're making some sort of break or shift in narrative style. If the story switches to a dream, for instance, or if the characters enter a Fae realm or another

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