Story Club with George Saunders

Story Club with George Saunders

Essays on Craft and Writing

Exercise: Can You See It?

Clarity in physical description.

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George Saunders
Jul 09, 2023
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Let’s talk a little about clarity today; especially clarity in physical description.

And let’s talk about it on two different levels.

Sometimes, the job is to describe something physically so that we can, in a minute, use it.  We are making a world for the character to move through, in other words.

So, the first level concerns whether the reader can see/picture/imagine a physical reality we are offering. 

Today, let’s try an exercise I just thought up, which may or may not work.

Let’s treat it as a collective experiment. :)

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