What Color Is It?

What Color Is It?

Descriptions are critical to authors. Without them, our settings are bland, our characters are boring. I’ve talked about using the senses. Sight is a big one, since we humans are very sight-oriented. We see blue skies, green grass, brown earth.

Wait. That’s boring, and doesn’t really convey the reality of what we’re looking at. What shade of blue? Of green? Of brown?

A recent read mentioned a cerulean sky. Even if I didn’t know the word, using it to describe “sky” gives me a re...