Describe A Classroom: Photo Stimulus
Jonathan Pobre Maybe you’re in a classroom right now. If so, you can write about that. If not, you can imagine any sort of classroom you like. It may be one classroom in particular, or it may be an...
View ArticlePainting A Setting In Few Words
THE HOME OF A NEWBORN BABY The door opened on the scene of misery and confusion in which it seemed that all Beth’s days were passed. Wet laundry — diapers and smelly baby woollens — was hanging from...
View ArticleDescribe a Setting: Photo Stimulus
pic by Stuck In Customs pic by anthony chammond pic by morBCN pic by Phillipp Klinger pic by Altus pic by Laura K Gibb These photos are from Flickr Creative Commons. Click on the photos to go to the...
View ArticleDescribe A Kitchen: Photo Stimulus
Close your eyes and imagine a kitchen. Any kitchen. Now open. Which kitchen sprang first to mind? That’s your kitchen. You’ll be writing two or three paragraphs about that kitchen. pic by Amanda...
View ArticleConveying Setting in Fiction
Use the Landscape. Always tell us where we are. And don’t just tell us where something is, make it pay off. Use description of landscape to help you establish the emotional tone of the scene. Keep...
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In my mother’s dream, she was at work but it wasn’t work; they were all sitting on a boat. She doesn’t work on a boat. She works in an office, mostly. “How do you know you were at work?” I asked,...
View ArticleA Cheap Trip Home
If you come from a big town in a big country (let’s say New York or London), you could spend your entire life reading nothing but books set in your own home town. I’m sure you don’t, but you could....
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