Word Painting: The Fine Art of Writing Descriptively Audio Download

Whether you write poetry, fiction, or nonfiction, you can benefit from improving your skills in description. Based on Word Painting: The Fine Art of Writing Descriptively (Writer's Digest Books, 2014), this presentation focuses on ways to create precise, imaginative, and effective “word pictures" that engage your reader. Multi-genre writer Rebecca McClanahan discusses how to use description to bring characters and settings to life, discover original images, reveal theme, and shape the narrative line.