From: BrendaWriter@yahoo.com   
      
   On 10/5/2014 8:53 PM, J.Pascal wrote:   
      
   > Other solutions could be to have someone else say something like... "Julie,   
   I sure do envy your beautiful blond hair... it flows like sunshine..."  *Gak*    
   And besides, this has to happen at the beginning of the story, and giving me a   
   love-sick stalker    
   just to describe my looks is even sillier than having me walk past a mirror.   
   >   
   > And I imagine that people started to notice that "the mirror trick" seemed   
   forced, too, and frequently applied...   
   >   
   > ...to a wholly made-up problem.  Just describe your POV character and get it   
   over with.  If a mirror is *appropriate* then use a mirror.  If a love-lorn   
   stalker is *appropriate* use a love-lorn stalker.  If it doesn't really matter   
   what your POV    
   character looks like, or what specie they are, or sex... then leave it out.   
   >   
   > I've tried to think of what I've done myself and I think that usually I   
   spread it out a bit at a time when I've got to be from only that person's POV   
   so it's never just a block of "what I look like."   
   >   
   > -Julie   
      
      
   I hae does the straight-out mirror thing, in REVISE THE WORLD. Had to do   
   it, since it was time travel plus cloning...   
      
   Brenda   
      
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