A review by warwriter
Word Painting: A Guide to Writing More Descriptively by Rebecca McClanahan

5.0

An excellent book on description. The author uses classics and other writers to illustrate different types of description, in addition to her own works (only a very few number of times, though, thank heaven). This book has great exercises that will help you see your writing in a more descriptive way. If you have problems with describing your people, places and things, this book will help with that, as well as give you quick pointers on tone, plot, and theme. Here's a tip that I've learned: Scatter your description instead of dumping them in long text blocks (my habit when I describe, which is sparingly).