It’s a simple question that may or may not have a complicated answer. I’m curious to find out what motivates people to take a chance and come to my website, and I hope that you will participate and tell me your story.
What Brought You Here?
Category: Author’s Questions
Vampires
What do you recall about vampires, and where did you learn it? What abilities do you remember them having? I seem to remember that they could charm people and turn to mist or fly away as a bat. What I do not remember is, how does one become a vampire? Is a bite all it takes, or is there more to it?
Description
I am in the habit of providing little information about characters physical attributes unless they are relevant to the story line. My thought is that how the character acts or what they say, causes the reader’s mind to draw upon their experience, and fill in the blanks. My beta readers had entirely different descriptions of a few characters when asked what they looked like, but they did not seem to miss the lack of detail.
What do you think?
Action
Describing a battle can be very difficult in a book. I usually try to detail the action from different perspectives through different character’s eyes. As a reader, do you prefer a third-person point of view, narrator, or first-person point of view such as through the character’s eyes?