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Fictional Narrative Basics - Description
Unit Completion Date: End of Week 5
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In practice, writers don't exclusively use expository statement, sensory description, or metaphor and simile. Overuse of any one mode can be very distracting to a reader. Most writers, I'm sure, don't even think consciously about the different techniques as they write, and simply use what comes to mind as they work. Like most of the other techniques and concepts we have addressed in this discussion unit, an understanding of these descriptive modes will probably be most useful to you once you have already written a draft. They will provide you with the tools and vocabulary to understand what you have done, and what your tendencies are when you provide description.
It's helpful, too, to look at how other writers blend the techniques to provide evocative description. For the very famous and descriptive three introductory paragraphs to Isak Dinesen's Out of Africa, make three lists of lines or phrases, one each of expository statements, sensory descriptions, and comparisons. This exercise will not be posted to the class site, but should be placed in the "Description" section of your own craftbook.
Description Exercise 6 (Opt.) - Submit Response
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