Continuing the series of writing exercises inspired by Susan Breen’s The Fiction Class, today we are moving on to description. For more information on the book and this series of posts, please check out the original book review here.

Description: Write about a place that was important to you growing up, but don’t put people in it. Just describe it as though you were painting the picture with words.

The building is old and looks like a castle. At least, part of it does. The grown-up part. That’s the part that calls, like a siren song, to readers.

The main adult section and the children’s library are housed in the new building. Its concrete blocks are stocky and uniformly grey and utterly boring to look at – from the outside. On the inside, well, that’s a horse of a different color entirely.
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