How to Attract Readers With Descriptive Style of Writing...

in writing •  7 years ago  (edited)

We love to read fiction books for numerous reasons. Some of them are: To be amused, to find out what happens to it, to reach the strange, to be frightened, laugh, feel, weep, to be so assimilated that some time so we ignore where we are.
So, have you ever wonder writing fiction? How could you absorb your readers into your narrations?


Let’s look at some samples,
"Liz’s legs were noodles. The ends of her nails were poison needles.
Her tongue was a prickly rigid, and her eyes were tones of bleach."

Did that narration almost make you feel as nauseous as Liz’s?
We comprehend that Liz’s legs weren't actually noodles.
To Liz, they feel as hobble as cooked noodles.
It was an implicit comparison, a figure of speech.

Hence, why don’t we simply write it like this?
"Liz felt nauseated and sick."

Chances are the second narration wasn't as graphic to you as the former. The purpose of fiction is to emit a spell, a brief illusion that you are staying in the world of the story. Fiction attract the senses, aids us to build vivid physiological simulacra of the happenings that characters are facing. Stage and screen attract few of our senses easily. We can feel the interactions of the characters and their place. However, with sequence fiction, you have only fixed symbols on a different background.

If you report the story in matter of truth, your reader might not get much beyond clarifying the squiggles.
She may understand what Liz feels like, but she cannot feel what Liz feels. She can read, but not get absorbed in the world of the story, learning the truths of Liz's life at the same time that Liz does.
Fiction play a key role with our senses: taste, smell, touch, hearing, sight, and motion. It also shows with our capability to grasp and make complex relationship.

So when you narrate, use well-known words to attract sound, taste, smell, sight, touch and movement.
Then create unanticipated connotations between your story elements, and make your readers' comprehend imaginations alight.

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Really well written. One could learn so much from you :)

Wow thanks for the tips, I look forward to trying them!

  ·  7 years ago (edited)

@dommaraju, superb narration?. Do you write professionally? Err.. I mean out of steemit?. You seem to have a way with your words. There is so much to learn from you. (As another steemian too mentioned above) 😊👍

Good work keep it up.