To Help Thy Directioners (Reviews and More)

Description is a key role in writing a good story, along with keeping on track and creating a good story line, but you can't achieve that without help from your best friend description.

Describing follows these key roles:
Sight
Smell
Hear
Touch
Taste

If you can make a reader experience all five senses, then you are on the right track.

You have to describe your characters at some point, just telling the reader won't get them anywhere, you have to intelligently ingrain it in your writing so that the reader won't feel they are just being told facts, they want to experience it their selves and draw their own picture in their mind. That's why we all complain about stories that are turned into movies, we have all as readers, created our own picture's in our heads, that is what you need to do.

Descriptive words, and similies are also helpful ways to describe things. Most famous stories have at least one similie in each chapter.

A similie is the way to describe something by comparing it to another thing, example:

She gently placed her hand on his shoulder as he laughed at some dumb joke she probably made, the twinge of jealousy hit me like a semi truck, his eyes flicked up as I turned away quickly.

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He stood there, proud like a lion, no one could make him budge from his decision, it was final and that was that.

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Then here are some examples of a better way to describe things, than what I have been seeing a lot on here (You decide what appears better):

1.) He touched my hair, messing it up.

2.) He ruffled my hair, causing strands to flutter down in my face in an annoying ugly mess.

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1.) He gave me a look as we drove, it was very hot, as we watched the sun set, "Has anyone ever been disappointed with my parties?"

2.) He gave me a look, as we sped through the scorching heat of the summer, sun setting off its pinks and purples as the night crept up on us, "Has anyone ever been disappointed with my parties?"

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1.) I looked at him, he was back to his usual style; blue jacket, blue jeans, and boots underneath, a beard growing on his face now.

2.) I peeked over at him, it was nice to see him back to his usual style; blue jean jacket with the collar popped in the back, dark blue skinny jeans hugged his hips as he wore his muddy worn down boots underneath, his midnight shadow emerging across his face made him look very cow boyish.

I hope this gives you guys ideas on how to describe things, you don't have to overdo it with describing because then it will kill your story and people will skim through it. Just need a little splash here and a little splash there to make your story fun and interesting. Remember, let your readers visualize it, don't tell, show.

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