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Creative Writing: How to Write Amazing Description
Rating: 4.3 out of 5(57 ratings)
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Creative Writing: How to Write Amazing Description

Create lush, vivid scenes for your readers, artists, actors, and producers.
Created byThomas Leveen
Last updated 11/2019
English
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What you'll learn

  • Identify areas in your stories where description can be improved, increasing your chances of landing an agent or selling well as an independent writer.
  • Learn from an award-winning author with nine novels published by Penguin Random House, Simon & Schuster, and more
  • Discover how to use vibrant language to increase reader engagement
  • Learn how to make deliberate choices with your writing to seize the reader's interest

Course content

2 sections • 16 lectures • 49m total length

  • What does Darth Vader smell like?3:04

    Before we begin, ask yourself this question: What does Darth Vader, Sith Lord in the Star Wars universe, actually smell like "in person"? How about the Joker, Batman's eternal enemy? Think about it!

Requirements

  • You should have written or be in the process of writing a full-length manuscript -- even if that's page one.

Description

As writer of prose, screenplays, comic scripts, or plays, all you have to entice your reader into your world is words. Black print, white page. That's it. What you do with those words will make the difference between a satisfied reader (or agent, or editor) begging for more, or your work being tossed in the "Not for me" pile.

As a comic book writer, you need to convey images to your artist for interpretation. As a screenplay writer, you must show your actors, director, and producer the world your characters inhabit. (Need help with dialogue? Check out my Udemy course on How To Write Amazing Dialogue.) Or as a novelist, most of your narrative is description, so you want to create a mental movie for your reader that engages every sense. (Did you know there are more than five?)

Join Bram Stoker-Award Finalist and award-winning author Tom Leveen on this crash-course on how to improve your description using every available resource you bring to the story. You'll learn about senses you never knew you had, how to choose between "red" and "crimson" and why grass should never be green!


Who this course is for:

  • Writers
  • Screenwriters and playwrights
  • Comic book writers
  • Authors

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