They are two main ways in which descriptions can be written---realistic and suggestive, though the two methods may, of course, be combined in one description.
Since the second method demands wider knowledge ane more abstract thought than the first, it is most people the harder.
For the realistic method thd main requisites are an observant and presents in words both thd general appearance and the details of the object which he is describing.
The beginner should prepare himself for writing descriptions by a study both of books and of the world around him. He should, in his reading, pay particular attention to the descriptions instead of skipping them because he wants to get on with the story. He should notice how the effect---tragic, grotesque, dainty---is obtained. He should consider what details are inserted and what are omitted, and should try to discover a reason for the insertion or omission.
But alongside this he must study the objects round him; try, for instance, to guess the character and tastes of the woman opposite him in the bus and mentally compose descriptions of her person, clothes, and bearing which which will reveal her supposed character.
Some types of mind draw analogies and see resemblances much more readily than others. Those who have no innate ability in this direction are unlikely by racking their brains to produce anything except either commonplaces or laboured and unnatural compositions.
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