User blog comment:Sykokillah/Characterisation 101/@comment-25345340-20140809200406

Well honestly i find it kind of important to tell the reader mostly everything bout the main character but not litery EVERYTHING, i find it a bit repedative when i have to go through 2 or 3 page's still of them talking bout the characher (i just find it annoying to me), as for pasta's i never seen it to the full extance of the character being told bout him self that much, theses may not be helpful in the pasta i can agree with you their, i say is in your choice but don't make it two long to tell the reader everything bout the character, i read scary stories and some of steven king's book in my high school year as a freshman and i learn that you should try and mostly focus on the characters background but not to much cause if you do, the reader will probley get bored and stop reading or skip some page's till the story start's.

Little thing's like their phobias, their secrects, or how popular they are, or their fave color, those are find but if you add two many for us to kind of count, will just wonder "what's the point of telling me all this if it never kind of goes to use in the story?".