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Azza Bamboo
Apr 7, 2018


THUNDERDOME LOSER 2021
Make the colours worth mentioning. Just describing the colour of something is —meh. Why do that? I mean it sincerely: why mention the colour? Do it for a reason!

For example, mentioning someone's red sports car is actually saying they've got a small dick. Also, talking about crimson all the time is going to make me think about blood, so could fit a vampire story. Also, the colour might be a detail you use to make something identifiable, like in a story that starts with someone's blue cardigan and later shows you blue cotton fibers caught in barbed wire.

There's nothing wrong with sounding like you're reading a thesaurus. That could be the POV character: some kind of nerd. Or if the descriptions sound like they came off some corporate colour chart, it might make the voice sound like a camp interior designer type of guy (which could be a neat character).

Azza Bamboo fucked around with this message at 16:08 on Jun 9, 2023

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