Writing Tips

CHAPTER SEVEN: Descriptions :)

This is chapter for descriptions of people, places, stuff. Basically nouns. This is a chapter explaining how to describe nouns in your writing, rather than the blurbs/descriptions/summaries at the beginning of the book

Use your five senses.

If you were describing an awful place, you obviously would tell people how it looked, but you also want to tell how it felt, and what it sounded like. 

What senses you use to describe your noun will vary on what your noun is. 

You might not want to describe what a place tasted like, but you probably would with a cake. And you probably wouldn't describe what the cake sounded like.

BUT. There's a big but. Maybe the but isn't related to what I just said, but its an important but.

You want it to flow well.

You wouldn't just say that the cake was sweet and it had a strawberry on top and white icing and vanilla cake and diced strawberries inside.

There's too many ands.

I'm making myself hungry now.

Anyway, you would say that the cake was vanilla, with diced strawberries mixed in the batter. The decoration was simple, just plain white icing and a strawberry on the very top. But it didn't need to look fancy, the taste did all the talking. The icing was creamy in my mouth, and the cake was light and fluffy, matching the delicate flavor of the vanilla.

That is what you call a description. You have to use words like paired with and with and matched and and.