7 Tips for Descriptive Writing

Posted on by Rob Bignell

• Treat readers to vivid passages in your story 
• How to make your writing more vivid 
• What are examples of ‘concrete details’?
• Work off the fat from overwritten descriptions 
• Shun beautiful writing done for beauty’s sake 
• Stay inbounds when writing descriptively 
• Incorporate imagery into your story
• BONUS: “Details are the Life of Prose.” — Jack Kerouac