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Day 232 - fixations
Aug. 19th, 2012 07:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
faradNo, 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?
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?