Still a writing day, but there is a writing exercise for those either not writing or wanting to bulk up their descriptions. Even if you don’t use the full exercise in your writing it is often useful for thinking through the places your characters go. I tend to find something occurring to me as I work on these exercises. So…
Task #64: Writing Exercise – Pick a place, a town a village a roadside inn, whatever that place is, fix it in your mind. Now, from the perspective of standing outside of this place (at the edge of town, on the road looking it over) describe the place. Writes about the architectural style and building condition. Were all the buildings built at the same time. If a singular building has it been added on to over time or is it fresh and new? Does anything about the place tell you about the inhabitants? Streets so clean they look swept daily? Half tumbled down places showing signs of a recent fire? Details used for a specific trade or industry perhaps (such as a community raising sheep and producing wool cloth having a fullers mill and long stretches of roof line kitted up with tenter hooks.) Show the sights, the smells the sounds of this town. Rope in as many of your senses as possible and make this place come to life.
As always, happy writing.
Ten til Midnight 