Questions tagged [description]
Painting a picture with a thousand words.
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In a script - Is it ok to have a general description of a character “YOUNG MAN”, then the actual description?
For example: A YOUNG MAN drifts into a bar. Something absent in his yes. His varsity jaket, dirty and torn. Blood still drips down his face from the accident. This is -- JAMES SMITH, 17, the boy next ...
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How to describe a husky, low, sinister voice? [closed]
Hello! While I was writing for my fantasy novel, I was stuck on how to describe a very scratchy and low, but malicious voice for a grim reaper kind of like ghost in my story. The voice I'm trying to ...
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Which makes better sense? [closed]
Is it correct to say:
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Best blind sequence? [closed]
I'm trying to write a story in which the sun has essentially gone out and visibility is constantly limited, and sometimes completely gone. Being a very visual person, I'm finding it hard to describe ...
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How can I describe a character who is black, but lighter-skinned?
So I have a character who's on the lighter shade for black and I want to describe her better:
"Hi, Mama," An attractive curly-haired woman greets. Her honey brown eyes gaze around the ...
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How do I add more details in my story? [closed]
I'm writing a story where two lovers meet then I having one of them die at the end. I am curious to see how much imagery I should add.
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How to write a polite quotation request email? [duplicate]
Good day! I'm working at Sales Dept. in a manufacturing enterprise. Lately my company strategy is to find other suppliers to have more competitive prices and I appointed to do this task. But I make a ...
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How much realism do I put into a war simulation story for Young Adults?
I am writing an action/thriller light novel for YA audience.
The story involves characters "playing" in a war-simulation game in an extremely realistic and full immersive Virtual Reality. By "full ...
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How do i properly name a fictional species and describe it?
I'm currently developing a fictional species set in a fantasy world, and I want to name it, but I don't want it to sound too... scientific? For example, our scientific name is Homo sapiens, but we don'...
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Writing differently when following different character POVs - mainly age difference. (3rd Person)
I'm writing a sci-fi novel with more than one main character.
Since I'm not an experienced writer, I still struggle with some basic "rules" within writing that may or may not exist.
This issue is ...
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How can this sentence better convey the immobilizing impact of fear?
Someone on another forum asked for advice on a sentence she was writing, so I thought I'd share it here and see what kind of responses we could get. The sentence in question is marked by italics. (I ...
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How to describe movement in zero-G?
Within the setting of my personal project (a hard science fiction) I need to be able to describe movement in zero-G extensively.
Because I wish to write a whole narrative involving very little ...
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Is it best to make a description metaphorical, or upfront?
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I've had this question for a really long time. A lot of my work seems quite 'floaty' and 'old style' because I describe things in a very metaphorical and surreal way. For example:
Her ...
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Am I being too descriptive?
Each and every time I read my stories to people, only one comment is usually made, albeit in different ways... I'm just not sure if they're being honest, or if I am actually doing something right.
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Where to draw the line between bloody and purely repulsive?
Violence and gore are an integral part of my story. However, I can usually keep the focus on the emotions, and the reactions, rather than the description of the injury.
My problem comes with one of ...
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Difference between a descriptive essay and a narrative essay?
Okay, so here's my problem: I am trying to write an essay from a prompt that uses the word "describe", but what I'm being asked to describe is not a single person or object, rather it's more broadly a ...
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Should one Infodump the reader when a new environment of a fictional world is introduced? [duplicate]
When a writen story is set in a fiction world or when a character changes locals to an environment that may be vastly different to what was introduce/what they would know from real life (ie. going ...
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Can you be too detailed in fantasy writing?
I am wondering if there is such a thing as “too detailed” in writing. If yes, then I want to know if I am doing it. I will insert a descriptive paragraph from my own writing below.
Its scaly head was ...
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Resources to describe medieval clothing from different cultures?
I realise this may not be the best place for this question, but I'm not sure where else to ask. I'd like to describe specific clothing from various societies existing when feudalism was still around, ...
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How to write mishearing/mispronouncing without lying to the reader?
Sometimes the plot requires communication to partially break down between characters. A misheard or mispronounced word can have great consequences, after all. Often people aren't even aware it ...
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Can overwriting be made to look intentional from a first-person narrative?
I am an aspiring author, trying to get my 80,000-word traditionally published, though I will self-publish it if that doesn't work out.
this article suggests that we avoid it altogether.
I've used ...
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How do i describe this change in voice?
In this Video, the girl, Seth, at 0:35 transforms and her voice changed along with her transformation.
I am trying to describe something similar, the physical change i can describe just fine however ...
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What are some examples of the “simple but vivid” description that Chekhov talks about in the quote below?
(The quote below is from one of Chekhov's letters to other Russian writer, Maxim Gorky.)
Your nature descriptions are artistic; you are a true landscape
painter. But your frequent personifications (...
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Describing new/strange foods [closed]
Alright, another question from the POV of Eris, my unreliable narrator living in a post-apocalyptic world who has just met other humans and is experiencing a variety of new things. She just met a ...
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Do you capitalize the names of governments in a story?
I know that names of countries, states, cities, and counties are always capitalized, but what about governments and organizations? In my novella there are basically 2 sections of space, and each have ...
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How do you describe someone approaching and calling out at the same time without using different font sizes?
So i have this
As Fate's worry grew and grew something drew her attention to a moving star in the sky. it's light got bigger and appeared to be falling to her
"Feeeeeeeeiiiiiiiiitoooooooooooooo-...
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How to Describe a Scene from Video?
I'm new to English (three years) and I want help describing this video for my fantasy novel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymcen0EjmiU.
I don't want you to do it at my place, but I really want to ...
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Is this a good description of a jew looking out the window at nazis? [closed]
Cautiously I rose, briefly leaving his side. Turning to the lugubrious window when suddenly I was forced to duck down as cantankerous Nazis dehisced from behind great timber doors, parading across the ...
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Does descriptive language in written fiction work as well as physical characterization in visual media?
Character design in visually oriented works (comic books, film, television) is often a useful shorthand for making characters stand out and be memorable in terms of their appearance. For example, ...
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How to Describe Topography
I have an image in my mind but I can't describe the topography, so I would always repeat, "grounds", "a little elavation", "inside the forest","some mounds,"surrounded by houses", is there any ...
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How to write about pouring water? [closed]
When someone treats a wound, like a burn, there’s this sound of the water pouring down, hitting the sink. Does anyone know what the sound is called? What things should I keep in mind while writing ...
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How would I explain the atmosphere in the current scene? [closed]
I would like to find other description of the atmosphere of a scene rather than just using the word 'tense.' Instead of writing, "The atmosphere between Bill and Bob is tense." What other ways would ...
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Describing the differences between languages
To help create descriptive differences in the way my characters talk I am looking for a list of how each language sounds.
For example the German language has lots of clusters of consonants, and could ...
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Why do writers sometimes use so much description?
Why do many writers use a lot of description when presenting a character or a scene? Is this a writing tradition? Many characters in a book have been described in minute detail , in some ways ...
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Describing something by a characteristic that's plainly obvious [migrated]
I'm wondering if there's a definition for phrases like:
The Green apple is Green
Some optional options are optional
Silly people are Silly
We visited the museum, where we saw museum artefacts.
Where ...
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Cons of Extensive Detailing [duplicate]
Every time I start a story, I create the scene in my mind. I'm pretty sure others would be able to write it in 2000 words. However, once I start writing, I detail every scene way too much and the end ...
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How to help reader visualize the environment in a story?
In a story where there is
only one character
doesn't talk to anyone
don't know where he is
and is narrating his story
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geographic description of coastal rock formation [closed]
Hello masters of geographic eloquence,
A rock arch bridges across to a rock formation
seen in the screen right of the image/photograph.
It's not an independent 'island'.
What word(s) best describe ...
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Describing suddenly remembering [closed]
How can you describe suddenly remembering something? For example: My MC suddenly remembers her purse, and feels relief when she feels it laying on her thighs.
Maybe, “I froze. My purse.”
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Writing a long description of a sequence of actions while still being impersonal [closed]
When I try to do this, the description feels very dry, and I am not sure if it's possible to make it feel less dry while still being impersonal and super objective (because I am using a omniscient and ...
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How does one describe somebody who is bi-racial to someone who is blind? [closed]
Describing mixed races in this way would be too broad. How do I say that someone is black?
How do you describe somebody of two or more races?
Word like mixed and biracial do not depict that person's ...
