I love the book Word Painting by Rebecca McClanahan (Writers Digest, 1999). She writes about the power of description, calling it one of the 3 parts of a story along with exposition and narration. Here are a few of her ideas.
“Description is an attempt to present as directly as possible the qualities of a person, place or object.” She goes on to suggest that we work to evoke a visual or other sense as much as we actually share it. She believes impressions of our senses have power.
at this – calling up reminders of how to improve our writing – THANKS!
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