... would be one of the most cruel jokes to play.

Description - one of the most important tools to the writer, and one of the toughest to wield. This is where your style is defined, whether you sit with simple writing, or immerse yourself with steepled, yet brief poems.

I realised that, while writing the next chapters to my fictions, that description was starting to elude me. It was nastily playing tricks with me.

So I stepped back and contemplated.

It's easy to use description when you're describing something, it seemed. But when it comes to describing action, emotion and the likes of moving intangible/tangible forces, I can't pull myself back and quarter everything into a brief action that told a lot.

Now, there's where the trick laid. How could I do that, yet keep the work detailed?

Then, I stepped back even further.

Now, I realised where I was mis-stepping.

A whole chapter alone would be written with description as default, or most of the time. The problem laid in where I wanted description to be.

Action and emotion seem to imply that not much is necessary. Just reflecting an action in a picturesque manner was ideal. Just highlighting an emotion akin to a sensation was all right too. Description did not have to lie all over the place - it just had to make its mark.

Though, honestly, that was not a very good tip. That was just my style of thinking. For me to move further on, I'll have to find ways to incorporate description that was uniquely mine, so to say. Or something that would make me stand out.

But for now, description, the devil that it is, will be tamed.

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(This is the end of the Writer's Tip. Credit to Hahli Husky for the creation of Writer's Tip )