{"id":8414,"date":"2019-09-06T01:00:58","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T08:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=8414"},"modified":"2019-09-21T11:46:33","modified_gmt":"2019-09-21T18:46:33","slug":"describe-an-item-prompt-443","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/describe-an-item-prompt-443\/","title":{"rendered":"Describe an item. Prompt #443"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Glass-Flower-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8415\" width=\"376\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Glass-Flower-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Glass-Flower-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Glass-Flower-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 376px) 100vw, 376px\" \/><figcaption>Photo by Marlene Cullen<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In \u201cThe Art of Fiction,\u201d John Gardener describes \u201cthe\nfictional dream.\u201d This is when the author has described a scene so viscerally,\nthe reader can see, feel, hear, taste, or smell what\u2019s going on in the scene. Sensory\ndetail is important in writing, but how to achieve it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Practice!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Try this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Study an object for ten minutes. It can be something you are wearing, an item on your desk or on a kitchen shelf. It can be something you use every day or a special item put away to keep it safe. You can describe the glass flower decoration above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Notice the details of the object \u2014 the shape and texture.\nExplore the pieces that make up the whole. Hold or touch the item. Notice the texture,\nthe heft. How does it feel? Does it have a smell? Look at the object from all\nangles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After ten minutes, write a description of the item so\nthorough that a reader can imagine, see, feel, smell this object. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Next, if appropriate, write about a memory associated with\nthis object.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s it. This is great practice for writing details that enrich your stories with  visceral elements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In \u201cThe Art of Fiction,\u201d John Gardener describes \u201cthe fictional dream.\u201d This is when the author has described a scene so viscerally, the reader can see, feel, hear, taste, or smell what\u2019s going on in the scene. Sensory detail is important in writing, but how to achieve it? Practice! Try this: Study an object for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[1190],"class_list":["post-8414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prompts","tag-writing-freely-just-write-writing-prompts-the-write-spot-blog"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43Dj8-2bI","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8414"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8487,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8414\/revisions\/8487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}