@Mark_Harbinger@mastodon.social
Post #2376719
2026-04-30 23:16 UTC
Serious question for the #WritingCommunity — does anyone else really *never* catalogue other people's eye colors? I mean, I've gone decades not knowing the eye colors of my friends, family...
...wives. (whoops)
But, seriously, nearly every time a narrator in a story I'm reading takes a beat to describe an eye color of another character—unless there is a strong emotional component to it—it just sounds too "writerly" to me.
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@crcollins@writing.exchange 2026-04-30 23:34
@Mark_Harbinger@mastodon.social I do know the eye colors of my husband and my children. I'm less sure about all my grandchildren and rarely recall anyone else's. I usually only mention my characters' eye colors when it's necessary to the plot. The mages' eye colors often shift when using their powers, for example.
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@astronomerritt@hachyderm.io 2026-05-01 01:32
@Mark_Harbinger@mastodon.social I genuinely notice the eye colours of most people I meet, I’m afraid! Maybe it’s *because* I’m a writer, though 😆