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Description as a Fiction-Writing Mode
By Mike Klaassen
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Last edited: Thursday, October 30, 2008
Posted: Thursday, October 30, 2008

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Description is the fiction-writing mode for transmitting a mental image of the particulars of a story.

Description is the fiction-writing mode for transmitting a mental image of the particulars of a story. It’s through description that characters, plot, and setting are portrayed. Description may also be used to help develop one or more of a story’s themes. And, of course, how and when description is utilized throughout a story are important aspects of an author’s unique writing style.

Description is one of the most widely recognized of the fiction-writing modes, together with dialogue, narration, exposition, and summarization. Unfortunately (as with many concepts used in the craft of fiction . . . (To view the entire article, please click on the link below.)

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