For today’s exercise describe your face!  You may use a mirror, but you may not use any words such as aged, aging, young, etc.  From reading your description, someone who doesn’t know you should have a good idea of what you look like, and your approximate age (so no telling your age either!).  This is an exercise in show not tell, as well as honing your descriptive skills.  If you’re not comfortable with assocating yourself with the exercise, think of it as character development and you are using your own features for those of one of the characters in a novel you plan to write.

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