Carefully chosen details can reveal character in fascinating and different ways. Details allow you to "show" your reader something about the character, rather than "tell" about the character.
You've written 5-10 lines about your character being "the sort of person who..." Now...
Post your TWO best phrases here on the forum.
Some student examples from the book What If:
** He wears ear plugs to bed even when it's sex night.
** He is the type of person who once a month calls a travel agency and finds out the prices of flights to places like Tanzania, New Guinea, Bangladesh.
** Will Greene is the sort of person who always has to be the better looking one in a relationship.
** Mary is the sort of person who gets cast as a tree with two lines, and becomes the most interesting part of the play.
** Marlene was the sort of person who would pick up the novel on my bedside table while I was in the shower and read me the entire last page before I knew what was going on.
Writes quotes on her mirror in dry erase marker never lipstick
Remembers your birthday and silently judges you by the characteristics of your astrological sign