jomar
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Absolutely 100% wrong. Why? Because I did in one of my stories. Sort of.No-one uses celebrity comparisons? I don't.
See, most so called authors here go on about how dribbling in a few features over the course of a few pages is oh so, I don’t know, “how it’s done.” No. Guys do the comparison.It would be dated now, but @YmaOHyd's "A-cups, at best" could become "like Audrey Hepburn's."
If you’re writing for women sure, write stuff like saucy, velvet skin, wisp of hair, but stay away from moist, just saying.
But if you’re writing for men just measure twice and cut once. You can pack so much info into that simple celeb comparison. For example: she was Taylor Swift in height and build and looked me evenly in my eyes. See? You’ve conveyed the woman is a slender 5’ 11” with a A cup and the male is also the same height. Conversely, if you’d wrote Ariana Grande in build and height and she craned her neck to look me in the eye, you’d convey a petite A cup short woman and taller male. And trust me, guys do the math anyway, so do yourself a favor and just cut out the middleman, as it were. Lastly, while dudes will google to get the visual if they don’t recognize the reference, choose your celebrity carefully because it’ll say much about you, the author @NotWise, who I suspect is a male of a certain age being a bit flirty with @BrightShinyGirl.
So follow my free advice and you’ll be a best selling author on Lit in no time!