1) An old creative writing teacher once told me he read a short story that took place in an old house. As a writing exercise, he tried to write down everything he remembered from the description of the house from the story. He wrote about the wood floors and the way they creaked when you walked on them, the chipped and peeling paint of the walls, the doors of the rooms that stuck, the mold in the basement, the dust in the attic…
When he finished, he had nearly ten pages of description.
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