DESCRIPTION: Painting a picture in your readers’ minds…

SHOW. DON’T TELL.

The forest was heavy with rain and the trees were absolutely motionless. Everything had withered and died, but right down on the ground the lateautumn's secret garden was growing with great vigour straight out of the mouldering earth, a strange vegetation of shiny puffed-up plants that had

nothing at all to do with summer. The late blueberry sprigs were yellowish-green and the cranberries as dark as blood. Hidden lichens and mosses began to grow, and they grew like a big soft carpet until they took over the whole forest. There were strong new colours everywhere, and red rowan berries were

shining all over the place. But the bracken had turned black.

from Moominvalley in November by Tove Jansson

Description

• Write down words, phrases, or sentences that describe this place.

• Don’t think! Just write!

Description of Sound…

The Books. “Tokyo.” The Lemon of Pink (Remastered). 2011

Sigur Rós. “Gobbledigook.” Med sud i eyrum vid spilum endalaust, 2008

"International Markets and Contexts." : human emotion photography. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 Sept. 2014. <http://e-chandler-internationalmarkets.blogspot.com.tr/2013/02/human-emotion-photography.html>.

"International Markets and Contexts." : human emotion photography. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 Sept. 2014. <http://e-chandler-internationalmarkets.blogspot.com.tr/2013/02/human-emotion-photography.html>.

Your Challenge

• Go back to your Brainstorming.

• Choose a moment that you can find opportunities for description—any kind of description.

• “Try it on.” Try as many different moments/descriptions as you can. Don’t stay too long on each…

Homework

• Learn and bring to class tomorrow:

• 10 new words that help you write better description.