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Acquiring a vocabulary for description
2016-03-10 15:34:32 Post No. 7795337
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Acquiring a vocabulary for description
Anonymous
2016-03-10 15:34:32
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"We went to camp. An old man in old-looking clothes gave us directions to the camp site. We put down our tents. There were trees of various kinds around. There was a lot of green- green bushes and green plants and green leaves, but they were all different kinds of green- you know what I mean? Like they were all distinct from each other and not like one big pixelated green blur. Wow. And the smells - don't even get me started. There were so many smells and sounds, man. Awesome. And so many little sounds by little insects and birds. Yeah, there was also the sun, which was, uhm, shining down on us all. It was a very pleasing experience on all senses overall. I hoped I conveyed it to you well kthxbye"
This is an exaggerated version of what my prose looks like when I'm trying to descibe settings.
How do you know the proper words for sights, sounds, names of plants, describing the sunlight and the unique greenery, etc? My vocabulary isn't bad, I excelled in SATs. I hardly have to pick up the dictionary when I'm reading books. But I suck at bring those words forth.. like tattered clothes instead of old-looking clothes, or something even better that I can't think of now.
