Description I – What and Why

Description is one of those writing tools that doesn’t get a lot of love. It’s hard to find plain old “how to describe things” advice – no, it’s always about how to write “adjective descriptions” – vivid descriptions, evocative descriptions, physical descriptions, interesting descriptions, and, of course, good descriptions. The underlying assumption seems to be that everybody knows how to do a basic description, so there’s no reason to go into that part and they can skip ahead to whatever improv...