Revision & Self-Editing by James Scott Bell

It opens: Smoke lowering down from chimney-pots, making a soft black drizzle, with flakes of soot in it as big as full-grown snow-flakes-gone into mourning, one might imagine, for the death of the sun… Fog everywhere.

The quintessential example of double duty in description comes from Bleak House by Charles Dickens. Remember to use the principle of double duty. But what about smell and touch? Even taste? These are underutilized details. Around her slender throat was knotted a narrow loose kerchief of green silk, precisely matching the single jewel she wore, an emerald as big as a sugar cube… Sight and sound are easy. She wore faun-colored pants in a fine weave. Red Fox: She wore flat sandals with gold straps. Somebody might know you.” “Oh, who would be likely to see us anyhow, at this time of night? There isn’t any one around. Why wouldn’t it be all right for me to stop in for a little while? They wouldn’t need to know, would they? There wouldn’t be anybody there now, would there?” “No, no, I can’t let you do that. Besides, I thought you said you didn’t want to have anyone see you with me that way, and if you came there I couldn’t help introducing you.” “Oh, but I don’t mean just that way. And besides their two girls are in and out all hours up to twelve, anyhow, and they’re in there often. You don’t suppose we could fix it so I could call on you at the Gilpins’ once in a while, do you? It isn’t the same there now as it was at the Newtons’.” “Oh, I know, but then they use their sitting room every night nearly until ten-thirty or eleven.

I’ll soon have to get a heavier coat.” “I don’t see how we are to do from now on, do you? There’s no place to go any more much, and it won’t be very pleasant walking the streets this way every night.

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Revision & Self-Editing by James Scott Bell