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Tag: elements and the physical world

You Are What You Eat (A Blog Action Day Post)

  • Posted on October 16, 2011December 6, 2013
  • Storytraining

Mundane details ground a story, making it feel real and vivid.  Food is one of the most versatile and fun of these mundane details to include.  Here are a few things that descriptions of food can accomplish in your story: Pleasure:  Just reading about good…

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Water, Water Everywhere (Blog Action Day)

  • Posted on October 15, 2010December 6, 2013
  • Storytraining

What does water have to do with storytelling?  The short answer is that, surely, an element as integral to life as water has to do with pretty much everything.  Another would be that water is often a symbolic element, but I prefer to use such…

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