There are four skills that every fiction writer must develop: plotting a story, creating characters, writing dialogue, and writing description. The last of these is as important as the first three. Yet, relatively little has been written about the art and craft of writing description.
In the Writing Description series, I’m going to try and fill some of the gaps.
Topics covered in this first book are:
- Showing & Telling
- Details
- The Art of Seeing
- Sensory Detail & Vivid Writing
- Hearing & Sound
- Touch & Texture
- Smell & Scents
- Taste & Flavour
- Sight
- Colour: Hues, Tints & Shades
- Colour Psychology
- Adjectives
- Adverbs
- Onomatopoeia & Sound Symbolism
- Synaesthesia
- Metaphor
- Symbols & Symbolism
- Point of View
- Description & Dialogue
- Backstory
Description Basics: How to Paint with Words is available now in paperback and e-book formats:
Look out for the other books in the series: Describing Characters; Describing Setting; Describing Action, and Body Language & Expressions: A Writer’s Guide to Non-Verbal Communication
PAUL TOMLINSON 