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DESCRIPTIVE WRITING Most tourists walk the world with a camera in hand, and with digital photography it is increasingly easy to snap literally hundreds of pictures on even a short trip. A writer with a simple pencil and paper can do that same job. Here, I'd argue that a thousand words is far better than an a gigabyte of digital pictures. Write a description of a place. Often, such a piece of writing is called a "dominant impression writing." If you were a painter, it would be a landscape painting, setting the tone with your choice of colors and textures, lights, darks, perspective, not to mention the details/subjects you chose to include. If you were an IMAX movie maker, you'd surround your audience with all sensations to communicate the "feel" of the place. In fact, that is your objective as a writer. |