Writing Tips
Take Notice
It is so easy to go through the world doing the usual things, and describing them in the usual way. But if we, as writers, want to describe things in an interesting way, a way that grabs the reader, then we first have to notice them in a deeper way than is usual.

You might see a striped fish swimming slowly through an aquarium. But watch for a while, let your eyes follow it, and you will notice more. You’ll see how the back has little ridges, like a slanted comb, and how one orange stripe goes right though the fish’s eye, giving it a bored, vacant look. You may see the way that light glints off the edge of a fin, and shines through the body of the fish so that you can see its heart, a dark pulsing spot beneath the gills.

Take notice. Then tell us about it so we can see it clearly, too.

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