48 Collections to Infuse Your Writing

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48 Collections to Infuse Your Writing

For the next few months, weekly writing tips will revolve around word choice. That includes:

colorful and original descriptions
pithy words and phrases
picture nouns and action verbs
writing that draws a reader in and addicts them to your voice

I keep a�� collection of descriptions that have pulled me into the books. I’m fascinated how authors can–in just a few words–put me in the middle of their story and make me want to stay there. I’ve shared 40 themes in the past:

Actions That Are��Timeless
Actions��(Era-Specific)
American
Appearance
Body Language
Body Parts
Body��Parts–Moving
Character Traits
Clothing–General
Clothing��Women��s
Dogs
Emotion Part��I

Emotion Part��III
Emotion��A to��D
Emotion��E to��O
Emotions
Emotion��S to��Z
Fascinating��Character
Fight
Genius
Hacker
Homes I
Homes��II
Horses
Jobs
Landscape–African
Landscape��General
Memorable
Nature
Neighborhood
Noses, Mouths, Legs, and��more
Protagonist

Sensory��Actions
Sick and Illnesses
Sickness and��Illness
Similes
Sneak��Around
Vehicles��Cars, Boats, Planes,��More
Weird Traits
Wild��Animals

Over the next few months, I’ll add 8 more:

55 Interesting Intel Devices
57 Ways to Describe Talking in a Novel
65 Ways to Describe Sight and Eyes in Your Writing
29 Ways to Describe a Headache
37 Ways to Describe Depression
37 Ways to Describe Pain
118 Ways to Describe Sound
37 Ways to Show the Passage of Time

All of these are for inspiration only. They can’t be copied because they’ve been pulled directly out of an author’s copyrighted manuscript (intellectual property is immediately copyrighted).

When you read the collections, I’d love to have you add your descriptions.

Jacqui Murray ��is the author of dozens of books (on technology in education) as well as the popular Building a Midshipman , the story of her daughter��s journey from high school to United States Naval Academy. She is webmaster for six blogs, an�� Amazon Vine Voice ��book reviewer, a columnist for��Examiner.com��and TeachHUB,��Editorial Review Board member for��Journal for Computing Teachers, monthly contributor to Today��s Author and a freelance journalist on tech ed topics. In her free time, she is�� ��editor of��technology training books for how to integrate technology in education which you can find on Structured Learning (a collaborative publisher).