Description doesn’t need to be direct to work.

Techniques abound for explaining a character indirectly, for example, through the objects that fill her globe. Develop a grocery list for the character—or 2 or 3, depending on who’s coming for lunch. Show us the character’s charge card bill or the itemized deductions on the tax kinds. Let your character host a storage purchase watching her squirm while next-door next-door neighbors and strangers rifle through her material. Which things is she practically giving out? just just What has she overpriced, secretly hoping no body will buy it? Read more