How do you describe an object, an animal or person and using the alchemy of word transform it into something utterly real in the mind of another?
Use the precise word.
Use the apt word.
Use the senses: visual, auditory, kinaesthetic, olfactory…
Use verbs of motion – even for something static…
And take your time. Look, really look. Wait, really wait. Observe and catch your observations on cool white paper cut with clean black lines of Indian ink…
And your words will rise form the page, organic and pulsating with the clenching tension of life. And then you’ll sit back in your chair and gasp at your creation and wonder how you did it, how you spun letters onto a flat sheet of A4 and made the words…live.
ZHZ.
