Noses

That's right.  I said a writing compendium of noses.  How many times have you read a book and they talked about the main guy having an aristocratic nose?  What the h is an aristocratic nose?  What does it even look like?  I KNOW what I think it looks like but what does the author think it looks like?

I know, hardly an earthshaking subject but one that is totally overlooked.  I mean, authors have an image of what their characters look like and try to convey it on the pages of a book.  The nose seems TOTALLY unimportant, but it creates part of how we see the character.  Think of the descriptors society has for noses: button, pert, s-naw-z, broken, and others.

So anyway, that is what I was thinking about the other day and thought I would send it out into the cosmos and see what comes back.  Thanks.