Writing To Describe | Tips & Tricks | Minor Help 12-02-2012, 04:07 AM
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God, this is going to be a pain to make it as simple as I can but here we go! - As a side note, I also made this thread as a follow up to my contest that I am hosting each week for AP! I didn't want to cluster the main thread with this thus resulting in the creation of this thread!
When you're writing to describe you always (most of the time) need to paragraph the senses in the perspective of what you're describing.
What can be heard?
What can be smelt?
What can be seen?
What can be felt?
What can be tasted?
Describing in-depth the sense listed above giving a paragraph for each will give you at bare minimum 5 solid paragraphs of descriptive writing! A tip would be always list the following with examples of what you're describing before you actually begin typing out the description.
Example -
What can be felt? - The thudding rain against my body.
As you can see it's key to find the right points to describe when you're talking about the senses, really go into depth and think about it as you're going to get bonus points for giving a good description about these! You need to put your mind in the position of being at the point of which you're describing and really go to work on finding the necessities to for-fill the 5 senses.
Having a good vocab is something you should always credit yourself for having when it comes to writing to describe! You can make such dull inanimate things sound wonderful if you use a variety of good language. For example, describing some rain;
The rain fell from the sky <- Boring!
The dreary rain, slowly dropped out of the expanding sky. <- Better!
There's an awful lot of difference between the two, not only does it make it sound good but it increases your word count. Continuing on from the language, you must use your similes and metaphors when describing, they're key and probably the most important thing that I always pick out when I come to analyze a descriptive writing example. If you don't know what similies and metaphors are, here's a quick example.
"A simile is where two things are directly compared because they share a common feature. The word AS or LIKE is used to compare the two words. Eg. As cold AS a dog's nose"
"A metaphor also compares two things, but it does so more directly WITHOUT using as or like. Eg. The shop was a little gold-mine."
Not my examples.
Everything you need to state in a piece of text that of purpose to describe MUST create a distinct image in the readers head! This is a key factor that many people forget to relate to. Always read through what you've put down and verify that it gives the effect that the reader is there. Emotive language that engages the reader is also something that is interesting to see in such writing, even though it might sound like you're a 'prick' or other words as of such nature, it's all in good spirit of writing a piece of text under a different tone!
I hope you've at least read some of this - I am guessing most of you haven't but if you're looking for a quick overview here's what I look for -
If needs be I'll come back to this guide, but it was quickly typed up at 3;00am.
When you're writing to describe you always (most of the time) need to paragraph the senses in the perspective of what you're describing.
What can be heard?
What can be smelt?
What can be seen?
What can be felt?
What can be tasted?
Describing in-depth the sense listed above giving a paragraph for each will give you at bare minimum 5 solid paragraphs of descriptive writing! A tip would be always list the following with examples of what you're describing before you actually begin typing out the description.
Example -
What can be felt? - The thudding rain against my body.
As you can see it's key to find the right points to describe when you're talking about the senses, really go into depth and think about it as you're going to get bonus points for giving a good description about these! You need to put your mind in the position of being at the point of which you're describing and really go to work on finding the necessities to for-fill the 5 senses.
Having a good vocab is something you should always credit yourself for having when it comes to writing to describe! You can make such dull inanimate things sound wonderful if you use a variety of good language. For example, describing some rain;
The rain fell from the sky <- Boring!
The dreary rain, slowly dropped out of the expanding sky. <- Better!
There's an awful lot of difference between the two, not only does it make it sound good but it increases your word count. Continuing on from the language, you must use your similes and metaphors when describing, they're key and probably the most important thing that I always pick out when I come to analyze a descriptive writing example. If you don't know what similies and metaphors are, here's a quick example.
"A simile is where two things are directly compared because they share a common feature. The word AS or LIKE is used to compare the two words. Eg. As cold AS a dog's nose"
"A metaphor also compares two things, but it does so more directly WITHOUT using as or like. Eg. The shop was a little gold-mine."
Not my examples.
Everything you need to state in a piece of text that of purpose to describe MUST create a distinct image in the readers head! This is a key factor that many people forget to relate to. Always read through what you've put down and verify that it gives the effect that the reader is there. Emotive language that engages the reader is also something that is interesting to see in such writing, even though it might sound like you're a 'prick' or other words as of such nature, it's all in good spirit of writing a piece of text under a different tone!
I hope you've at least read some of this - I am guessing most of you haven't but if you're looking for a quick overview here's what I look for -
- Slight humor - nothing of which makes the piece into a joke but a subtle laugh doesn't hurt.
- Style - if the text has been written with thought and creativity.
- Complexity of sentences - make sure you've included the various sentence structures, simple, compound and complex.
- Senses - always include the 5 senses!
If needs be I'll come back to this guide, but it was quickly typed up at 3;00am.
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