This week, it’s back to description. It might be obvious by now that I just love description. My favorite writing exercise (along with writing Wikipedia-style summaries of characters I invent) is to describe objects, places, or people, usually to no point or purpose. To that end, I’ve been thinking of the best kind of description: the short kind.
You might instead call it the efficient kind. I might love description, but I won’t tolerate entire paragraphs devoted to one person, one miserable car. What gives the greatest shudder of pleasure when I read is that perfect one-liner.
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| "Last time I saw a mouth like that, it had a hook in it." |
