Spicing up your writing is an essential thing to do. Giving it flavor, vibrance and life will make people start reading, keep reading all the way to the end, and come back to you begging for more.
So what is more interesting:
See spot run.
or
See the brilliant, muscled Spot galloping in full stride hungrily seeking out the shiny ball that was flung to the outskirts where only he can retrieve it.
Obviously, the second scene is way more vivid and interesting.
What makes Spot brilliant? How huge of a muscle bound dog is he?
Where are they? Who flung the ball? Outskirts of where?
All those questions creep up into your mind haunting as they can be.
That is what makes it interesting and gets you thirsting for more. There is a reason why romance novels aka harlequin novels are the NUMBER 1 sellling book genre in the history of the world.
They have captivated the hearts and imaginations of women for over a century because they are so vividly detailed and just beg a detailed picture right out of the imagination simply by the feelings and images the words on the page evoke.
It is a great craft. An art really to write one.
To us men it is drivel for the most part.
But there is a reason it is so powerful. Because it engages more senses than just the eyes it is more emotional and therefore has greater impact.
It engages the sounds, sights, smells and even feelings inside when you read it. It conjures up some extreme emotional intensity and as an experience is more memorable and powerful than reading a dry technical journal.
Keep in mind the vividness and engaging as many senses as you possibly can with your writing. Make it come alive and the words leap off the page.
ONce you get good at that you will have loyal and grateful readers.
So what is more interesting:
See spot run.
or
See the brilliant, muscled Spot galloping in full stride hungrily seeking out the shiny ball that was flung to the outskirts where only he can retrieve it.
Obviously, the second scene is way more vivid and interesting.
What makes Spot brilliant? How huge of a muscle bound dog is he?
Where are they? Who flung the ball? Outskirts of where?
All those questions creep up into your mind haunting as they can be.
That is what makes it interesting and gets you thirsting for more. There is a reason why romance novels aka harlequin novels are the NUMBER 1 sellling book genre in the history of the world.
They have captivated the hearts and imaginations of women for over a century because they are so vividly detailed and just beg a detailed picture right out of the imagination simply by the feelings and images the words on the page evoke.
It is a great craft. An art really to write one.
To us men it is drivel for the most part.
But there is a reason it is so powerful. Because it engages more senses than just the eyes it is more emotional and therefore has greater impact.
It engages the sounds, sights, smells and even feelings inside when you read it. It conjures up some extreme emotional intensity and as an experience is more memorable and powerful than reading a dry technical journal.
Keep in mind the vividness and engaging as many senses as you possibly can with your writing. Make it come alive and the words leap off the page.
ONce you get good at that you will have loyal and grateful readers.
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