CHILD'S PLAY

When you are around young children, listen very carefully. When they believe no one is concerned with what they are doing, they let themselves go. They make up stories, give
dialogue to their playthings, and give the best descriptions to animate or inanimate objects that you can ever imagine.


As writers, we sometimes lose that child-like quality of spontaneous insight. into the
stories we are trying to write. We work at writing, instead of letting writing work in us.
Some stories I have read give mundane, dull, and very uninteresting descriptions of
scenes that could be brought alive and made vibrant with the right words. When you
are trying to describe something to your reader, close your eyes and in your mind see
whatever it is