Hahaha. In my case, it's good to have a large vocabulary and a tendency to go into specifics of how something looks (I like observing things, even people). You just have to use metaphors a lot, go into more specific details about how one looks and know the names of different clothes (why I do, I have no idea).
And Histories are fun if you're allowed to go wacky a bit. Well, about everything can be fun if you can go crazy, period! And I'm mean to my characters...sometimes...*whistles* It's just hard to take into account that History applies itself to Personality; that's where my fault lies in, really. I can't exactly have an overly aggressive male character live a happy, bunny-filled, ponies and rainbows life (unless I give him some sort of disorder, but that's another story) and get away with it...um...can I? Hmm... <-- beginning to overthink things...again...*sigh*