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Here, I share five guiding principles for describing a scene, along with five additional advanced strategies with in-depth examples.
Text version of this video: quotidianwriter.medium.com/the-ultimate-guide-to-wâŚ
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ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
âDescription: Narrative Lensingâ by David F. Shultz: davidfshultz.com/2017/03/26/description-narrative-âŚ
âOn Writing: Great Character Descriptions!â by Hello Future Me:
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Defining Descriptive Writing (0:00)
1. Focus on Details Specific to the Point of View (1:04)
2. Include the Senses (2:30)
3. Favor Strong Verbs and Adjectives (4:10)
4. Move the Narrative Forward (6:41)
5. Donât Describe Everything (8:50)
6. Add a Character-Based Layer (10:13)
7. Imagine the Scene from a Fixed Point (14:52)
8. Decide How You Want the Scene to Feel (18:46)
9. Pair Descriptions with Actions (24:13)
10. Connect Similes and Metaphors to the Story World (28:42)
Descriptive Writing Exercise (32:41)
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Date of upload: Dec 30, 2022 ^^
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Top Comments of this video!! :3
When the world needed her most, she returned
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No adds? No sponsor? No Patreon? This is gold and its free. Thanks for your hardwork Diane... we appreciate it. Thank you
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Can I just take a moment to say how genuinely beautiful each of these videos are? Gentle, warm colors, thoughtful, yet parsimonious use if words, and subtle but uplifting "you can do this." I never miss an upload!
PS, having done some music publication and voiceover work professionally, you absolutely could record if you wanted.
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Diane. How? How do you always manage to post about exactly what Iâm struggling to write?! You always manage to break down the barriers in my mind and simplify the process in a way that feels manageable, doable. Thank you. Thank you always for posting such incredible content.
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Relevance to character is something I constantly forget, yet it seems to be THE thing, ALL things, that make the description what it is.
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My personal favorite thing to do when writing settings is to go out in nature and find a similar setting or element that fits the setting of my story. Then I try to describe it in unique phasing. I do this because often you can be shocked by how many little things you donât imagine when describing scenes and just by going outside can give you alot of inspiration!
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I hope you can release more videos like this. All of your videos in that playlist is so rich in knowledge and content that it takes me two hours to watch your videos since I note everything you are saying 𤣠Please release more content. You and Brandon Sanderson's lectures are my favourite on teaching writing.
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Well when I took a creative writing course in college. My professor had me try to describe walking into my room if I was blind.
Also a statement from a long lost poetry book I never found again.
âDescribe a tree, so that it couldnât possibly be mistaken for any other tree.â
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im begging for a vid on multi-pov, specifically 3 or more povs. how to weave multiple inciding incidents, internal conflicts, personal stakes into a cohesive whole.
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In my dystopian series, Elektra Voltare, the narrating main character acquires the ability to sense electromagnetic fields. She struggles to describe the sense by saying it is like describing color to the blind or music to the deaf. All the world is alive with swirling currents of electricity and all life has its own bio electric signature. That presented a bit of a challenge to describe.
In this dystopian future, in order to make the world more accessible to the reader, this main character is raised in the basement of a monastery and educated from encyclopedias published in 1988 (her mutant power absorbs electricity, so she cannot read from electronic devices and the society no longer uses paper). Her out-of-date knowledge allows her to describe the world as she encounters it in terms a reader from our time will understand.
For me, description derives from putting yourself in the place of the characters and sensing through their senses. The description follows where the character places her attention.
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"Diane, I truly appreciate the knowledge and wisdom you share."
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As a non-native English speaker/"aspiring writer" I'm actually horrified to begin writing because due to me learning English as a second language I don't have the same sense of reliance on it as I do with my native tongue and I'm afraid that my descriptions will be stiff and boring, dialogue unmotivated and awful, characters artificial and one dimensional because of my circumstances. And there's so many advices and tips floating all around the internet that it makes me feel so overwhelmed. It makes me feel as if me even beginning to write is a worthless endeavor most of the time but I still come back to that idea. I still don't know how to deal with that feeling but I want to thank you for being one of the few guiding lights in the abyss of self doubt and fear of writing.
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I've been really struggling with writing description recently...actually, it's probably the hardest thing about writing, at least for me. This video came in at the right time as usual, Diane!
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Your writing videos are the only ones I actually enjoy watching and find beneficial! Iâve been rewatching your old videos, and Iâm so glad youâve posted again. Writing descriptions is going to be so much easier to approach now!!
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How Joe Butler described his mind is practically 1 to 1 with mine, never thought Iâd âmeetâ another person who thinks like me âşď¸
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Exactly what I needed to get me back into writing. Thank you đ
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Is it fate, or coincidence, to stumble upon a precious gem while destitute. Either way, I found you when I needed to. As an aspiring write i struggle with this more than I should. Thank you.
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your videos are perfect for me. descriptive, to the point and packed with information. I found you yesterday and I cant even binge watch your videos cause they're so packed with good bits that I'm stuck processing it for hours passed. thank you for the quality videos
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Wow, I've literally been watching your videos this past week helping me write, revise and edit my manuscripts.
Noticed you post roughly around every couple months and was bummed out âonly to see today you posted. Thank you for all your great advice.
Quality over quantity in everything.
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Hi there, viewers! You can read a text version of this video on Medium: quotidianwriter.medium.com/the-ultimate-guide-to-wâŚ
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