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Writer's Workshop is a new column providing details writers can use to create more believable, nuanced, multi-faceted characters and situations in their stories.
"It's attention to detail that makes the difference between average and stunning."- Francis Atterbury
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If Your Character Has... Super-Fine Hair
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One of the surest ways to pop the suspension of disbelief for your readers is to have a character act in an abnormal way. You wouldn't have your five-year-old protagonist suddenly jump in the car as the emergency get-a-way driver, but you also wouldn't have them looking over mom or dad's shoulder at the morning paper - unless, of course, they had, for example, a high IQ that made them more interested in the politics page than cartoons on TV.
How your characters reveal themselves in their day-to-day lives is going to help maintain that suspension of disbelief, or pop that bubble and possibly turn your reader off.
So to give your characters a more authentic feeling, let's look at what life is like for a person with super-fine hair (written by someone who suffers from it).
LIVING WITH IT
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