Library Writing

The observations we made in the library taught us the importance of attention to detail as well as the importance of environment. The activity helped us as writers because it forced us to think about details and descriptions, and then made us come up with metaphors for those descriptions. Good metaphors and figurative language can improve writing and so the activity helped us come up with them one step at a time, first by making us focus on the details we would normally overlook and then enhancing them. We were conditioning ourselves to pay attention to the little things that may seem inconsequential at first but when included in a piece of writing make it that much better because they show the author really thought about the environment of the characters. The details make the description more believable, the metaphors make the description more interesting and the combination makes the overall writing more sophisticated.