descriptions

Speculative Elephants: More About Description.

By dnbrynPosted on June 16, 2019Posted in other, writing articlesTagged descriptions, writing advice, writing help, writing resources, writing tips

(A continuation of the feverish analysis in this post.) Let’s now consider a reader who has no idea what an elephant is. We the writer want to present our reader with words aligned in just the right way that we paint a picture of an elephant that will let the reader perfectly imagine it exactly as we […]

Descriptions as Elephants: the Happy Medium.

By dnbrynPosted on June 2, 2019Posted in other, writing articlesTagged descriptions, how to write, writing advice, writing help, writing tips

There are a lot of odd rules floating around about descriptions (some of which are useful and others… not so much), but to form writing theories that any writer can apply to their own work without losing their personal style, we often need to step back from the “rules” and examine things more broadly. There […]