[ WP ] Write a physical description of yourself as if you are a character in a piece of fiction .

*All of you are doing it wrong! In what good piece of fiction is someone's physical description given like upfront like that when it's not one person describing another to a third, or the person has been transformed? None. It's lame. Now, my rant's over, let me show you how it's done: * 
 
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 He lay in the bed of his collage dorm, the bed sagging under his excessive weight. Pale fingers tapped away at the iPad screen. The light of the sun streamed into the room, providing the majority of the room's illumination. 
 
 His hazel eyes focused intently on the writing prompt on the screen. He was contemplating how to answer it, but was taking his time, contemplating his choice of words. As he was prone to doing while thinking, he twirled his beard or picked at the numerous scabs that lined his body, only for his hand to jerk away. White teeth chewed on his lip as he silently scolded himself. He just knew that his habit was going to get him infected with something. 
 
 Returning to his writing, he blew a brown hair off the obsessively cleaned screen. Unlike the rest of his room, which was covered in a fine layer of dust, the t-shirt wearing young adult kept his electronics spotlessly clean. His gadgets were his life - he had to take care of them. Thankfully, he was n't too obsessed with them and with his studies that he neglected his own hygiene, but the rest of the dorm room could deal with a good scrubbing. 
 
 Finally satisfied with the contents of his writing prompt submission, he typed the final line, read it over, and clicked submit. He hoped that the reddit community would enjoy it. 
 
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 *See? Drop the description into the scene, do n't give it as a wall of exposition. A good story might not even give that much physical description. *
