From: mdhangton@gmail.com   
      
   On Sunday, October 5, 2014 10:38:51 PM UTC-4, bre...@sff.net wrote:   
   > On 10/5/2014 8:53 PM, J.Pascal wrote:   
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   > > 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.   
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   > > And I imagine that people started to notice that "the mirror trick" seemed   
   forced, too, and frequently applied...   
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   > > ...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.   
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   > > 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."   
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   > > -Julie   
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   > I hae does the straight-out mirror thing, in REVISE THE WORLD. Had to do    
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   > it, since it was time travel plus cloning...   
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   I don't get it.  If everybody has a clone, then why don't you describe the POV   
   character's clone?   
      
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