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I agree with this. I want to shoot myself when someone pauses his/her story to insert a description. The "let me start by saying that I'm 5'7" with a great body, bla bla bla"... totally kills it for me. I don't mind someone mentioning a body part in action, but otherwise physical descriptions are not necessary.
Agreed! It's even worse when two characters meet in a story for the first time and the narrator (or perspective character) reels off their stats like they'd just greeted them with a tape measure or they have the magical ability to psychically read clothing labels at a distance.
I look across the room and saw her. The most beautiful woman I've ever seen. She had long blonde hair that fell down across her 36D breasts and when she stood up on her four and a half inch heels she was 5'11".
Erm, yeah right.
Agreed. In my "Delights" novels (12 books, 600,000 words) the chief character, the story of whose life they are, is never described, even to his height, though it can be inferred that he is shorter than his chief bodyguard who is described as "a very tall man, almost seven feet and broad in proportion" when that impression is an important part of the story.
While many problems have been pointed out to me by eagle-eyed readers, mostly correctly, not one has ever commented on the lack of description for David Ransome, Emir of Kobekistan.
