farad: (Lorency - all seven)
farad ([personal profile] farad) wrote in [community profile] mag7wrimo2012-08-19 07:56 pm

Day 232 - fixations

No, not the boys - though, yeah, it would  be rather fun to discuss what they're fixated on (Chris, finding his family's killer;, Buck, sex; Nathan, medicine; Ezra, weatlh; et cetera).  No, as writers, what do *we* fixate on?  When you're writing, what quality in the characters do you find that you describe the most? 

I tend to be a hair and eye person. I tend to be repetitious about where someone is looking or staring or what message they're sending with their gaze.  I also tend to concentrate on hair - color, what it's doing, how it looks.   I'm especially bad about it in scenes with dialogue, and I find, on editing, that I have to find other things for the characters to be doing - hand movements, face movements, or even activity outside of the characters in the discussion.

What do you find that you 'fixate' on when you write?

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