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Q&A How do you describe your characters?

I have this weird problem: I know my characters, I know what they're like, and I know how they would act in any given situation and in the plot I use them in, but I don't know how to describe their...

2 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by noClue‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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#3: Attribution notice added by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T06:42:44Z (almost 5 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/q/29028
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#2: Initial revision by user avatar noClue‭ · 2019-12-08T06:42:44Z (almost 5 years ago)
I have this weird problem: I know my characters, I know what they're like, and I know how they would act in any given situation and in the plot I use them in, but I don't know how to describe their character traits. I have a history for each character, but I can't really put into words how they are like as people. Whenever I go to write a summary of a character describing how they behave, my mind sort of goes blank, even though I know what they do in the story and how they interact with different kinds of people.

Am I missing something? Are my characters simply not fleshed out enough or are my character description skills simply lacking? How do I describe my characters?

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2017-07-01T11:18:24Z (over 7 years ago)
Original score: 4