5 Ways to Make Your Writing More Descriptive

• Use sensory details rather than internalized ones 
One way to make your writing more vivid is to use sensory details rather than internalized ones. Sensory details (blue, sour, loud, smooth) are specific rather than general. Internalized details (angry, pleased, innocent, civilized) amount to using fuzzy words and give no real impression of what is being described.

• Mimic sounds to appeal to sense of hearing 

• Improve descriptions by appealing to ‘touch’  

• Appeal to sense of taste in descriptions 
 
• Add color to your fiction manuscript 

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