The difficulty with coming up
with a story is that you start with no frame of reference. There’s you and
there’s the blank page.
The advantage of writing
description is you have a definite place to start. You may use your skill and
talent to augment it, but when you describe a mug, you have a pretty good idea what a
mug looks like to get you started.
This is why aspiring writers will
often bury themselves in long descriptions. Because it’s easier. But that’s
also why it’s less impressive, no matter how beautiful the prose. And why you
have to police yourself much more rigorously.
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