Whenever you introduce a new character, it helps to give at least two brief sentences, one with physical unique traits and one with personality traits. You are successful when the audience can form a picture in their mind of the character.
If I talk about my daughter, I have not yet told you enough to form a picture in your mind. If I say my daughter Anna is 5, a little tossle-haired moptop, who runs, even around the house with pure abandon and a smile that won’t stop. She doesn’t hug, she launches. Her energy is nonstop until it stops and she occasionally falls asleep right in the middle of a task.
When you read a good writer, whether it’s a book or article, and they introduce a new character, they give that brief description, just enough so you can form that picture in your mind.
Pick someone in your immediate family. If you had to describe them in 2 sentences and the rest of us could then form a picture of them in our mind, what would the sentences be?
