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Fictional Narrative Basics - Description
Unit Completion Date: End of Week 5
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There is any number of ways to teach yourself better techniques for description, but they all come down to practice. The more description you write, the better feel you will have for what is necessary and what can be left out, and for how to approach and frame a particular description.
I've developed my habits of description through trial and error, as I think most writers do, and through example and imitation. While there's not much I can do with your trial and error process, we can work with examples and practice our techniques with them in mind. If you read enough, you will begin to notice certain techniques that writers use again and again, and making those techniques explicit is the first step in being able to employ them in your own writing. I've provided one example of this. I'd like for each of you to see if you can identify some technique that the rest of us can use.
Read through the examples provided by your classmates and see if you can identify two descriptions that seem to share a particular technique, one that you feel you can replicate. Don't use your own example. First, describe as carefully as possible the technique you see at work. What approach do the two writers share? How do their examples differ? Do you find one to be more effective than the other? Once you have spelled out how you see the two examples working, pick some moment from a story you are working on, and try to employ the technique yourself.
Please post this exercise in the "Description" section of the class craftbook.
Description Exercise 2 (Req.) - Submit Response
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