Descriptive Language and Setting
(Exercise by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum in the book Naming The World, ed. by Bret Anthony Johnson)

Suggested word count: No more than 750

Describe a place you, or one of your characters, loves by detailing its destruction. Nature could be the force – fire, flood or the ravages of weather – but feel free to interpret the idea of destruction broadly. Consider the erosion of neglect and poverty, or the damage that comes with discovery, or the harm that’s done in the name of improvement.

Your setting could be anything from a hurricane-torn backyard to a city block that’s being gentrified.

The goal is that the parameters of this exercise will offer a means of generating descriptions rich with both movement and feeling.

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MIND from TheWanderingBoo

Dust Devil