Thursday, June 12, 2014

Build Anticipation through Description

As a kid, I read Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and the most interesting - aka frustrating - passage was a multi-page description of all the foods the family didn't have.  I recalled from earlier in the book that Charlie had a bar of chocolate, but the author didn't mention that until the final sentence.  Even then, the news was bad - Charlie had also eaten the chocolate bar.

The point is, mere description kept me on the edge of my seat.  There wasn't a single word of dialogue in the entire passage.  Try to do the same with the writing prompt below.

Have fun, and keep writing!

Prompt:  The Missing Office Supplies

She took inventory monthly, and there was no way the office should be this depleted already.  They had no...

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