133 How to Write a Retelling with Alix E Harrow
The Rebel Author Podcast
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How to Describe a Person in a Book
i have an extremely prescriptive formula, which is that if i am describing a person in particular, if this is broadly true of all my metaphors, cas i i have a problem about metaphors. Number one, it's nut. I can't ever have heard before like the description. And two, it has to tell me somethingpecific about the person, not just the way they look. And then three, tha thing has to be like, true. And by true, i mean like something that i myself have experienced in the world, liket and like a type of person that feels like recognizle. E n, really unkind. But then what made me come up
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