5/5 Er. Ramandeep S. 5 years ago on Google
Learning
how
to
describe
places
and
people
lucidly is
a
vital
skill
for
all
fiction
authors.
Effective
descriptive
words
show
mood
and
character
in
addition
to
appearance.
The
best
descriptions
draw
us
in
and
keep
us
rapt
with
attention,
placing
us
in
a
scene.
Here
are
5
tips
for
writing
memorable
places
and
characters:
1.
Use
great
(not
merely ‘nice’)
adjectives
The
word
‘nice’
itself
is
a
good
example
of
a
nice
adjective.
It’s
nondescript,
the
opposite
of
descriptive.
If
a
friend
went
on
vacation
and
described
the
Colosseum
as
‘nice’,
you
wouldn’t
be
any
wiser
as
to
how
it
felt
to
stand
in
an
ancient,
enormous
arena.
Similarly,
if
someone
described
their
new
friend
to
you
as
‘nice’,
you
wouldn’t
know
much
about
their
personality
or
appearance.
Great
adjectives
do
extra
work.
If
the
traveler said
‘you’ve
got
to
see
it,
it
was
awe-inspiring,
really
towering’,
you’d
have
a
sense
of
both
the
feeling
the
Colosseum evoked
and
a
sense
of
its
scale.
When
you’re describing
a
place or
a
person,
think
about
the
specificity
of
the
describing
words
you
choose.
You
could
say,
‘The
man
was
short’
yet
readers
might
ask
themselves
‘how
short?’
If
you
said
‘the
man
was
minute’,
this
suggests
not
only
that
the
character
is
especially
small
in
size
but
also
registers
a
sense
of
surprise
or
shock
(given
the
strength
of
the
descriptive
word).
