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Description and Delivering Information for Genre Writers
Introduction
What This Class Is and How to Get the Most Out of It
What Does Description Do?
Description as Collaboration
Your Duties in the Collaboration
Your Secret Collaborator #1
Your Secret Collaborator #2
Summary: What Does Description Do?
Description Strategies
Less Is More
Work Towards an Effect
Keep Things Moving
Precision as a Tool
Sensory Stuff
Extending Metaphors
Sentence Structure
Using Your Own Details
Summary: Description Strategies
Description and Character
Character as Filter
Your Character’s Internal State
Conveying Relationships and Backstory
Third Person Omniscient
Summary: Description and Character
Description and Worldbuilding
How Description Creates a World
Conveying Physical Details
Conveying Historical and Cultural Details
The Specialized Demands of the Speculative
Summary: Description and Worldbuilding
Wrapping Up
Controlling the Pace and Raising the Stakes with Description
Some Conclusions and Reminders
Suggested Reading and Works Cited: Fiction
Suggested Reading and Works Cited: Nonfiction
Using Your Own Details
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