postmodernmulticoloredcloak:

hazeldomain:

prokopetz:

When writing fiction, there’s a couple of things you’ve gotta bear in mind:

1. Unless you’re doing the old-timey Omniscient Narrator thing, almost all scenes will have an implied viewpoint character.
2. The word count you devote to describing things implies where the viewpoint character’s focus of attention is.

It really doesn’t take much. The exact thresholds are going to depend on what you’re describing and how verbose your writing is overall, of course, but in general:

• If you spend three words describing something, your viewpoint character took notice.
• If you spend five words describing something, your viewpoint character did a double take.
• If you spend seven words describing something, your viewpoint character stopped and stared.

So the moral is: if you can’t figure out why your readers are telling you that your protagonist reads as hella gay, it’s probably because – according to your descriptive word count – she’s constantly stopping and staring at other ladies’ breasts. Get those adjectives under control!

He’s a weird little guy. 

Honestly the first thing that came to my mind is how JK Rowling accidentally made Harry Potter bisexual af