I’m a sucker for a great description. I love the visuals they create for me as well as the way they bring our other senses into play: sound, touch, smell and taste. Check out these novel excerpts. They inspire me when I write my stories. Let me know if you agree.<\/p>\n
The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd<\/strong><\/p>\n It was the time of year when migrating crows wheeled across the sky, thunderous flocks that moved like a single veil. (kindle location:\u00a0 1910 of 5663)<\/p>\n The Secret River by Kate Grenville<\/strong><\/p>\n Morning and evening the Government chain gangs clanked and shuffled to and from the half-timbered barracks where their hammocks were packed in so close together the convicts because\u00a0\u00a0 part of each other’s dreams (p.83)<\/p>\n A Paris Apartment by Michelle Gable<\/strong><\/p>\n Makeup settled into her wrinkles like cracked mud in a dry riverbed. (p.129)<\/p>\n Paris Letters by Janice MacLeod<\/strong><\/p>\n …le temps de cerise<\/em> (the time of cherries) came to represent the fat days of summer when so many fruits and vegetables were in season and markets were piled high with colors and textures that begged for you to touch and squeeze and smell and taste. (after p.240)<\/p>\n Tiger Tail Soup by Nicki Chen<\/strong><\/p>\n It was getting late, Knife-sharp shadows fell across the lane, dividing everything into light and darkness. (p.169)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m a sucker for a great description. I love the visuals they create for me as well as the way they bring our other senses into play: sound, touch, smell and taste. Check out these novel excerpts. They inspire me when I write my stories. Let me know if you agree. The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd It was the time of year when migrating crows wheeled across the sky, thunderous flocks that moved like a single veil. (kindle location:\u00a0 1910 of 5663) The Secret River by Kate Grenville Morning and evening the Government chain gangs clanked and...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,4,13,7],"tags":[60,19,17,37],"class_list":["post-840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-84-ribbons","category-details-in-writing","category-musings","category-quotes","tag-description","tag-details","tag-sensory-ideas","tag-subtle-seasonal-observations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=840"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":842,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840\/revisions\/842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}