what you need to get the job done

[musesfool]

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[lost2mercy]

Just WORD.

[miriam_heddy]

When I read stories that do these things, I have the urge to poke my *eyes* out with flying plastic cutlery. Or, alternately, skewer the authors of said fic.

Blergh.

[musesfool]

Heh. Yes. It wasn't actually sharp and heavy, like real silverware would be.

[writingpathways]

Wait you mean Dean doesn't think about his hair is the color of dark honey, the kind you might find in a organic market? Okay, yeah that's duh.

[delle]

cloverleaf honey or fireweed honey? *snerk*

(and musesfool OMG How I adore you and your shiny brain.)

[copracat]

You say Dean Winchester, I know what he looks like.

This is true. (Okay, except for me. I'm still a little unsure which is Dean, which is Sam but I think maybe Dean is the curly-haired one? Notice how there's almost always a curly-haired one? Never mind.)

While you are right, you are overlooking the need of the writer and the reader that the story indulge in sensory delight. This is not me. I am a cold prickly. But some people need and want a story that allows them to contemplate the hair and the eyes and to love them.

There are better ways of writing this, of course, than 'Aren't my eyes very fine today, mama?'

[musesfool]

There is not, actually, a curly-haired on on SPN. *points to icon* Dean's on the left, Sam's on the right as you're looking at it. Sam is the really really tall one, and Dean is the really really pretty one.

And I get what you're saying - sometimes I like writing from a particular POV so I can be all, "and his freckles! and his mouth! and his shoulders!" etc. - but even then, I try to avoid those really ridiculous descriptors that don't actually sound like something the character would ever say.