Monday, 26 August 2013

Writing from an image

In my opinion, writing a descriptive text from an image (either in your head or a photo/drawing) is much easier than trying to piece words together with no idea of what your surroundings are. For example, if I am describing a girl for a novel or short story, I'd either have a mental image of another character in my head written similarly by multiple answers - adding my own little touches here and there - or would go on Google images and look up England landscape if I needed to create a village with red rooftops and green hills in the background.
Here is an excerpt from a poem I once wrote:

Bright light shines into her room like crystals,
She sighs but does not stir, her eyes flutter,
Her chest warms at the feeling of the sun,
So brilliant and pure it makes her sad.

A new day has come, away with the last,
A different, strange world that awaits her,
Her dreams cloud, a familiar face shows,

Body tensed and ready, her body is afraid.

For this example, I had a woman laying in bed on a sunny morning feeling scared but relieved that time is still passing and she hasn't frozen in the middle of nowhere. She had flaming red hair in tight curls and wore a white and lace nightgown as she woke up underneath cream sheets in a king size bed. The quilt was red with gold stitching and the bed had a giant frame - something like what the Queen would sleep in.

I feel images are really important for aspiring authors because it gives us more of a chance to write down every necessary detail and some that maybe aren't so important to the description! That is what makes your readers laugh and enjoy the text more. Good luck!

2 comments:

  1. That's a really good point to consider, thanks for sharing. :)

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  2. Well, it always works for me when I am writing and has gotten me to writing a 90,000 word story...and still going! :)

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