Description

Are you looking for a way to add new depth and re-readability to your writing? Are you tired of description being "the boring part that people skip"? Are you a writer who's struggled with making their story world feel believable and three-dimensional? Description in fiction shouldn't be boring for the reader or for the writer. Description: A Busy Writer's Guide will help you take your writing to the next level by exchanging ho-hum description for description that's compelling and will bring your story to life, regardless of the genre you write. In Description: A Busy Writer's Guide, you will - find the answer to the age-old question of how much description is too much; - learn how to use point of view to keep description fresh; - recognize the red flags for boring description in fiction; - explore how to use all five senses to bring your descriptions to life for the reader; - discover the ways metaphors and similes can add power to your descriptive writing; - gain the tools needed to describe setting, characters, and action in engaging ways; - learn how descriptions can add conflict, enhance the theme, and amp up emotion; and - much more This book puts theory into plain language alongside examples so you can see how that theory looks in practice. In addition, you'll receive tips and how-to exercises to help you apply what you learn to the pages of your own story. Most importantly, like every book in the Busy Writer's Guide series, Description: A Busy Writer's Guide cuts the fluff so that you have more time to write and to live your life.

Author: Marcy Kennedy
Publisher: Tongue Untied Communications
Published: 05/31/2016
Pages: 148
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.43lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.51w x 0.34d
ISBN13: 9781988069104
ISBN10: 1988069106
BISAC Categories:
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Writing | General

About the Author
Marcy Kennedy is a fantasy and science fiction writer who believes there's always hope. Sometimes you just have to dig a little harder to find it. In 2007, she won the suspense/thriller category of Writer's Digest's Popular Fiction Competition, and in 2009, she won the grand prize. She's also the author of the Busy Writer's Guide series. Alongside her own writing, Marcy works as a freelance editor and teaches classes on craft and social media. You can find her blogging about writing and about the place where real life meets science fiction, fantasy, and myth at www.marcykennedy.com.

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