Sky And Devy, For torture, I mean learning only!

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Ready! <3

Writing Methods:

Different writers use different writing methods and techniques. I prefer narrative over most of them because I enjoy manipulating my characters and my plot to whatever suits my needs. A good percentage of newspaper reporters and journalists pursue exposition or persuasion because it's formal and it'll help them get a job! And then experimental writers, like to try out new methods and see if it fits them. So today or on the day you read this, you're going to become an experimental writer. But firstly, I need to know what form of writing do you most commonly use? Narrative, Exposition, Descriptive, etc?

I find myself comfortable with exposition and persuasive, since I often find myself using them in school for the weekly essays I usually have due. Narrative I find myself using quite often as well. Descriptive... probably not. I'm bad at describing things, I've found. >.> It's all either too little or a giant wall of text and information dump. *grumbles*

Alright, so let's focus on Descriptive. As you probably know, in descriptive writing, you use the senses to help the reader's ability to percieve what's going on in your story.

Suzie picked up and bit the orange.

The sentence above is plain. There is nothing describing the girl OR the orange. So to fix that sentence or descriptitize (awesome new word I made up) it, we must first figure out which senses are applicable to it. For now, let's focus on the orange.

What does the orange look like?

What does the orange smell like?

What does the orange feel like?

What does the orange smell like?

And I don't think the smell of hearing is applicable in this sentence unless we're talking about the Annoying Orange...

So answer those questions and get back to me!

What does the orange look like?
-Spherical and colored much like one might gather based on the name of the fruit
-Thick skin punctured by Suzie's nails; lighter in color

What does the orange smell like?
-Energetic, zesty, citrus, reminds Suzie of the breakfast she didn't have time to eat this morning (orange juice)

What does the orange feel like?
-A comforting weight in her hand; solid
-Soft and easily bruised or crushed if she tried, yet the fruit is resilient
-Smooth skin

What does the orange taste like?
You had 'smell' twice, so I replaced this one with 'taste'.
-Sweet with an acidic after-taste

What does the orange sound like?
-Percussive sound as she taps her fingers against it
-Wet squelch as she squeezes it too hard

You can tell I started to get ahead of myself... sorry... >.< I just had an image in my head of a girl, Suzie, worried for an exam or sommat as she rides the bus to school, nervously picking at the orange her friend gave her as breakfast. Suzie was in so much of a hurry to get to the bus stop, she didn't have time to grab her usual meal, which includes orange juice, etc

I was probably so tired the other night that I didn't realize my mistake!

Suzie, exhaustedly, picked up an orange from off the granite bar. Its spherical shape fit comfortably in her hands. Solid, just as she preferred. The deep orange color portrayed by the fruit seemed almost a shade lighter in the dim rays of the sun from the window. She could also distinguish faint lines that had been punctured by Suzie's rather prominent nails. Slowly, she peeled back the orange's skin. It conformed to her will each time she pulled a layer back, each time she played with it. The skin was soft and easy to manipulate. She could simply bruise or crush the peelings with force, with effort. As she peeled the last section off, she marveled at its inner layer, its inner shell. Suzie squeezed it softly, producing a soft squelch. Orange juice splattered over the table. She silently told herself she would clean it up later. Tenderly, she pulled it to her nose and enveloped the zesty, citrus smell. It reminded her of the breakfast she didn't have to eat this morning. Now drawn by the entergetic smell, she took a small bite of the unique fruit... A sweet flavor flood throughout her mouth, only to be followed by a rather acid after-taste. She took the orange away from her mouth and silently wondered something, something rather weird... Why had she consumed ten minutes of her life observing an orange perspicaciously?

*Applauds self* What an awesome ending! JK

I only omitted a few details that wouldn't flow! Wow, I honestly didn't know that you could write a paragraph about picking up and eating a orange..

Would you like to try a few sentences now?

*Cough, cough*

Mrrrr... see... how do you write it so it doesn't become a wall of text?

Transition words, adjectives, etc. It's all about sentence structure, something I really hated to learn about. I don't really have a plausible method in how I write, but I can give you one pointer, one pointer that will help you as it has helped me.

• Adjectives. As you probably know, adjectives describe things. Adjectives are the KEY items to successful descriptive wirting.

Well... I know about those... but what I (at the time) failed to describe was the fact that many people I know dislike having a single paragraph full of description about a single person or object. I have issues breaking up description when I write or roleplay. Like instead of describing how Harry looks in a single paragraph, I'm trying to figure out how to break up the description more... if that makes any sense. >.>

One sec... I found this awesome thing that might be able to help... If only I can find it first!

((Will edit post in a min.))

Here it is:

http://delta-edu.com/downloads/samples_seeds/1303478.pdf

...hey Sky? >.>

Am I allowed to request if we can work on sommat else? I know it makes me seem like a bad student, but I really didn't know exactly what 'writing methods' were when I initially signed up. *coughs*

I mean... my roleplaying in general has gotten very rusty. Is there a way we could work on that? Like... I suck at descriptions... and by that, I mean incorporating them into posts and such without giving the other people walls of purple prose, y'know? And just... my writing voice in general and such and bleh...

Hey Sky? Would you be able to critique this post, please? PLEASE? PWEASE? *begs*