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Showing posts with label detail. Show all posts

Show, don't tell


If you try to explain something, you are doing the work for the reader, and not very well. Write from your senses, without comment or abstraction, and readers will conjure up their own images.

Pick a detail in this picture. Write down what you would see, hear, feel, taste, smell, if you were close to the objects – and conjure up an emotion that infuses the description with meaning.

Quick turn

Think of the most boring day you have ever spent in another country.
Take one small detail of that day and change it so that the day becomes one of the most exhilerating you have ever spent.