From Last Night
At last night's meeting we did a fun exercise where we played with Roger Zelazny's Rule of Three. This rule states that when describing a character all you need to do is mention three things about the character at a time. This is enough information to give the reader an idea as to the nature of your character and leaves enough unsaid to allow the reader to use his imagination. One of the types of characters we desribed last night was a dark lord and/or dark lady. Here's mine: "He carried a sword as long as a lightning bolt, his steed could eat whole villages and he used his sinus cavities as a prison for his most dangerous enemies."
Anyone else want to contribute some of what they came up with last night?
2 comments:
Ugh. Lightening bolts make me think about my physics homework.
But here's one of mine. The fireman. He had a thin, curly mustache and was very talkavive, though hard to understand because of his outrageous French accent.
That wasn't exactly how I phrased it at the meeting but I don't feel like checking right nwo and it's close enough.
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