Welcome to meet Janina!

In my last post "Doing a questionnaire about a character" I described how I felt about the questionnaire about a character. The questionnaire was based on the facts about the character I had listed on this post. Now as an assignment as part of the Start writing fiction -course, I have summarized what the character is like and what her appearance is like. I decided to make it a simple brief description without much froufrou.

 

A summary of what the character is like

Janina likes to live in the moment, at least when the moment is nice. When not, she dreams and plans adventures. She is a big dreamer and gets easily excited about things. 

She is open-minded, spontaneous and unpredictable, but she also has a habit of procrastinating things she should do. With her unpredictability also comes a fickleness in temper, one moment she can be on top of the moon and a minute later she is solemn.

Janina is seven years old and feels unloved by her parents, and because of that lonely. She has become rather independent, and spends her time being adventurous, curious and photographing. She has already decided that she is going to be a professional photographer and that better sooner than later.

Showing the character through appearance

The small girl has light blond hair, which even though it is long and straight always looks unkempt. She is tall for her age of seven, but very thin. Her face is diamond-shaped, wide at the cheekbones and narrow at the forehead and jaw. She has a tiny chin and a button nose, and her cheeks flush easily. Her face looks innocent, open and curious, mainly because of her large blue green eyes.

She is dressed in plain jeans, a long dark red sweater and simple black jogging shoes. She doesn’t wear any jewelry, the only thing that adorns her hands and face are a couple scratches. Her scars aren’t visible, because those few she has are hidden under her jeans. She has a couple of twigs stiking from her hair and her jeans and shoes are covered in mud.  

In future posts I will show her through a habitual or repeated action and through a speech in a scene.

I started my "free writing courses online" -project with the course "Start writing fiction" from the Open University. You can see all my posts regarding this course here. This is Part 1.9 of the project based on an assignment of a Part called "Portraying a Character", where one was supposed to portray the character in four different ways, here I have described hat the character is like and the appearane of her.