1. Why do you think description is important in fiction? How are details portrayed differently in writing than in movies? Creative Writing 1.28

2. Describe a character experiencing this setting

3. Significant Details We must be able to see it and make a judgment about it. The window is green – concrete but not significant The windowsill was shedding flakes of fungus-green paint – the provides a concrete image we can see and it allows us as readers to make a judgment

4. Small Groups Five senses recognition Fold a piece of paper so that it has five columns Write a sense at the top of each one List how the subject of this excerpt describes his experience through each sense What did he: smell, taste, touch, see, hear

5. He could have written: I was quite poor, and I was not used to seeing such a profusion of food, so that although I was very afraid there might be someone in the room and that I might be caught stealing, I couldn’t resist taking the risk. Tell how we know each of the above facts through the descriptions in the story. For example: We could tell he was poor because the passage states…

6. Two things to remember: 1. The writer must deal in sense detail 2. These must be details that matter Don’t only mean what you say, but mean more than you say. Don’t write in abstractions The reader needs to participate in a participant in a real way.

7. Application I want you to describe the setting as if your character were experiencing it. Use at least 5 significant details for each example. 1/3 pg. each

10. http://www.visitusa.com/newjersey/images/island beachpic.jpg