Goodreads asked Ron McGaw:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Ron McGaw Use concrete rather than conceptual words and images. That is, don't have your characters or the narrator fondly remembering "home." Rather, have the character recall the smell of freshly cut grass, the feel of the sun on her skin, the look of the cracked walkway up to the door, the sound of the tinkling porch chimes, and the taste of her mother's pumpkin pie. Ernest Hemingway said it best when he said something like, "The writer should describe the elements of the emotion."

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