Describing the undescribed.

[David Evil Overlord]

claw back your book and insert part of the description?

The publisher doesn't allow that. All the editing has been done. They warned me about that before the editing was done.

And I don't think Our Hero would recognise anything behaving insouciantly.

 

[David Evil Overlord]

She runs on class, sport, and sets up what's supposed to be a boys-against-girls capture the flag game. That "on" should be "one". Sigh.

 

[Mad Alice]

The publisher doesn't allow that. All the editing has been done. They warned me about that before the editing was done.

And I don't think Our Hero would recognise anything behaving insouciantly.

but insouciantly is my word of the day. perhaps nova says it and jenny thinks its a type of salad dressing? after all i understand that she does use big words, now deo. l believe one of her favorites is epitome. the joke being her constantly using them in a manner that would give the dictionary people a hissyfit.
I would describe the teacher as having a perpetually surprised look upon her face.

 

[David Evil Overlord]

but insouciantly is my word of the day. perhaps nova says it and jenny thinks its a type of salad dressing?

I can see that

 

[hopewrites]

Or have her mispronounce it unsucculantly,

*meaditates on how to make something un-succulent*

 

[David Evil Overlord]

“Yes. And no. I’m not your Miss Rivendale.”*
“What?” She was so my Miss Rivendale; all lithe muscle and round, brass-framed glasses that were almost goggles, and dandelion-floof brown hair. And bracelets that looked a little like armour, and a lot like they could maybe probably stop bullets.
As always, she gave me the feeling she was born in the wrong century. If she was here ... did that mean she was a super hero? She looked like her super hero name should be Athletic Steampunk Woman.

*Our Hero's first day at super hero school, located in an alternate timeline where everyone** died from a pandemic.

**Almost everyone...

 

[Mad Alice]

“Yes. And no. I’m not your Miss Rivendale.”*
“What?” She was so my Miss Rivendale; all lithe muscle and round, brass-framed glasses that were almost goggles, and dandelion-floof brown hair. And bracelets that looked a little like armour, and a lot like they could maybe probably stop bullets.
As always, she gave me the feeling she was born in the wrong century. If she was here ... did that mean she was a super hero? She looked like her super hero name should be Athletic Steampunk Woman.

*Our Hero's first day at super hero school, located in an alternate timeline where everyone** died from a pandemic.

**Almost everyone...

(A bit of "and" "and" "and" on this one David; methinks someone's been a bit of a naughty boy with the grammar fairy)

 

[Pentagon]

Depending on the protagonist,

'I hadn't noticed it before, being otherwise preoccupied by girls/boys/fast cars, but Miss Rivendale was not as boring as I had otherwise assumed.'

It wouldn't be unreasonable for a character to have been paying no attention when younger!

 

[David Evil Overlord]

Only four months younger. In fairness, this alternate version of her teacher is anything but boring...

 

[tinkerdan]

I've been thinking about this, since I have a character in my first two books who is seen only in one chapter in each book. In the third she plays a larger part and it wasn't exactly planned that way so I'd not gone into too much description. I think that it will work out because she doesn't figure into the first to stories all that prominently and I don't expect most readers to have formed any specific opinions about what she looks like, so that leaves some room.

However if she does pose too much trouble, I might have to kill her.

The point here is that it might all depend on how prominent and visible to the reader they are in the earlier story.

 

[David Evil Overlord]

I think it will work out. Originally, she's just the sports teacher who sets up a boys-against-girls game. Unfortunately, since Our Hero messed up very badly at the netball grand final, so badly she cost her team the game, the other girls aren't very keen on playing with her. But the teacher is just the standard teacher Jenny's known for all her high school years. Known and not noticed in minute detail.

Now she meets a person who she thinks is the same teacher. Of course she's the same person, just look at her! I'll even describe all the ways she's the same person! Wait, she says she's my teachers' twin sister? (spoiler alert: this takes place in an alternate timeline, so "twin" is something of an oversimplification.)