Oct 13 2009
Can You Describe Your Protagonist’s Superpowers in 1-2 Sentences?
When you’re pitching your story to publishers, please don’t waste paragraphs describing each character’s powers. That’s space you could be using to develop personalities, character traits, the plot, relationships, etc. As a rule of thumb, I would recommend keeping it simple–generally, if you need more than 20 words to describe a character’s powers, there’s probably too much going on. (Main exception: if that extra space is crucial to understanding the plot).*
