The Little Things Novice Writers Miss: What Clothing Says About a Person
In the past few months, we've explored several aspects of worldbuilding and character development that novice writers often ignore. We've discussed how things are made, what body language says about a person, how education impacts speech, and more. Now it's time to take a look at what our characters are wearing, and what that says about them. How important is clothing, really? You know how everyone judges books by their covers, despite the saying? We also judge people by thei
The Little Things Novice Writers Miss: How Things Are Made
Over the past few months, we've tackled several little ways novice writers mark themselves as amateurs. We've discussed how to give your readers a sense of the world beyond your story, build animals into your world, develop your side characters' motivations, and catch filter words in your writing. Today we'll explore another aspect of world-building that is often ignored or not addressed in enough detail: how things are made and what they're made of. If you're anything like m