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Overview
Make your descriptions fresh and they'll move your story forward, imbue your work with atmosphere, create that tang of feeling that editors cry for and readers crave. Monica Wood helps you squeeze the greatest flavor from the language. She segments description like an orange, separating its slices to let you sample each one. You'll learn about detail, and how you can use description to awaken the reader's senses of touch, taste, hearing, smell and sight; advancing story using only relevant description - and how to edit out sluggish, reader-stopping writing; style, and the use of description to create a mood that matches your story's content; point of view - how selecting omniscient, first person or third-person limited narrative influences how much descriptive freedom you have and creating original word depictions of people, animals, places, weather and movement. Wood teaches by example, developing stories with characters in various situations, to show you how you can apply description techniques. You'll also see samples of work by such noted writers as Mark Helprin, Anne Tyler and Raymond Carver. And you'll find dos and don'ts, lists of descriptive alternatives to common verbs and nouns, and tips for editing your work.Book Details
Published
February 1, 1996
Publisher
Cincinnati, Ohio : Writer's Digest Books, c1995.
Pages
176
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780898796810