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Active Description: Getting Details in While Moving Your Story Forward
Summary:
Mastering the art of active description can take your writing to the next level. Howard Jones, James Lowder, A. E. Greenwood, and Gabrielle Harbowy discuss how it's done.
Excellent scenes communicate a vivid sense of time and place. Carol Berg explores the techniques of scene-setting through description, character, and action that will keep your story real.