How to write your stories into life

WHERE ELSE CAN I USE DESCRIPTIVE WRITING?

Descriptive writing is a creative writing skill that’s transferable to other types of writing, too. We live in a world where the beauty of content created by humans is that it can reflect the human experience in a way that AI-generated copy cannot: it is specific, rather then generic, it has an emotional resonance, for these reasons it has the ability to create a more lasting impression. Your descriptive writing skills can go a long way to achieving this if you write non-fiction. Articles for magazines and the features sections of newspapers are more likely to contain colour than the news pages, but a news story might well benefit from a few words of colour. Your blog posts will sparkle with judicious use of descriptive writing, and if you’re writing marketing copy it will enable to you to write specifically, which will give it an edge of originality.

The old truism is that pictures speak louder than words, and ‘colour writing’ enables readers to go beyond the page and ‘see’ what you’re writing about in their mind’s eye. Colour writing is another name for descriptive or impressionistic writing where you take the reader through an experience and enable them to see it through your eyes.