{"id":1097,"date":"2011-08-28T10:48:39","date_gmt":"2011-08-28T14:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/?p=1097"},"modified":"2012-08-27T11:00:20","modified_gmt":"2012-08-27T15:00:20","slug":"bad-fairy-class-picture-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/?p=1097","title":{"rendered":"Bad Fairy: Class Picture Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t do much in the way of visualizing characters when I’m writing, but I think most readers are more visual than I am, and they tend to appreciate at least a little description.\u00a0 But except for the major characters, I hadn’t done much description of anyone in the book, and there were a ton of minor characters whose names were probably mentioned once\u2014primarily Delia’s classmates in her fairy school.\u00a0 So I decided I should try to draw them so I could get an idea of what she’s seeing every day.<\/p>\n

So here’s my “fairy class picture day,” ignoring of course that they lived in a time without cameras. Haha.<\/p>\n

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The teachers are the ones standing on the stage, and the fairy students are all on the ground\u2014I drew the graduating class of that year.<\/p>\n

Fairies are obviously a pretty homogenous bunch, given how consistently they seem to have curly blonde hair and light skin.\u00a0 A few of them have a little more red or a little more brown in their hair, but it’s rare.\u00a0 So you can see why my protagonist sticks out a bit.\u00a0 (That and she’s tiny because she’s four years younger than the next youngest student.\u00a0 And, well, a few other things.)<\/p>\n

I had a lot of fun figuring out what everyone looks like.\u00a0 It lets me flesh them out more when I write about them in the book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t do much in the way of visualizing characters when I’m writing, but I think most readers are more visual than I am, and they tend to appreciate at least a little description.\u00a0 But except for the major characters, I hadn’t done much description of anyone in the book, and there were a ton […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,6],"tags":[7,29],"class_list":["post-1097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-novels","tag-bad-fairy","tag-character-sketches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1098,"href":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097\/revisions\/1098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}