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Texture, colour, shape ….

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Too many adjectives fight with one another and weaken prose.  Too few and the reader won’t be immersed in the scene.  Add texture to your writing by taut, spare descriptions using all the senses but necessarily in the same scene.  Touch in one scene, smell in another and so forth.  That way it won’t overwhelm the reader but bring your scenes alive.



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“When people fuck with you, you gotta choice. You can fuck back or swallow down. Swallow down enough times and you start to choke. Or you can learn to accept. Let go. Breathe easy.”
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“one day, you will want these hours back, my girl. You will wonder how you lost them and you will want to get them back. There's a trick to time.”
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“He feels a dark star of pain in his throat and the last warmth of her touch on his fingers. When”
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