Plus links to SIXTY NINE MORE great describing articles (in the original post) – THANK YOU JACQUI 😀
For the next few months, weekly writing tips will include word choice suggestions. That includes:
- colorful and original descriptions
- pithy words and phrases
- picture nouns and action verbs
- writing that draws a reader in and addicts them to your voice
I keep a collection of descriptions that have pulled me into the books. I’m fascinated how authors can–in just a few words–put me in the middle of their story and make me want to stay there. This one’s on how to describe furnishings.
A note: These are for inspiration only. They can’t be copied because they’ve been pulled directly from an author’s copyrighted manuscript (intellectual property is immediately copyrighted when published).
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Well I dispute that ‘trestle table’ is copyrighted – it’s an object like ‘armchair’, ‘dressing table’, ‘sofa’, ‘stool’; same for ‘hardwood floor’, if we weren’t allowed to say hardwood floor then what else is excluded, ’tile floor’, ‘floorboards’, ‘lino’, ‘packed earth’? And what about rooms? If one author has used ‘kitchen’ can no other writer have a scene in a kitchen? Copyright has to apply to more than a single word or a couple of words next to each other.
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I’ll be interested in the response Lindsey 😃
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