Hello and welcome back, poetry mentors and mentees! I hope your course is going greatly, and if there's anything you need or wish to ask, we are always here to clear your doubts and help how we can.

First Things First

We have interviewed julietcaesar , xlntwtch and VFreie on the subjects of this lesson, descriptions and vocabulary building (and LiliWrites, neurotype-on-discord and illuminara give some input in the article too), so check it out: tWR Interviews: Description and Vocabulary . Fave and share, you know you want to.

Prose Course, Lesson 3

The next Poetry lesson will be up on March 5th, together with the next Prose one, so you Poetry peoples can keep practicing on your lesson.

This lesson focuses on description, settings and vocabulary building.

The Resources/Articles

The Nonverbal Thesaurus
Writing Tips: Description
Synonyms, the Thesaurus, and You
Writing Emotions VISUALLY
Writing DESCRIPTION
The Guide to Writing Settings
Show don't Tell
Making the Most of the Words You Use

(a hell of a lot of stuff - dA has tons to offer on this topic!)

As usual, a warning: Some of these articles may repeat each other, some may give different kinds of advice for the same topic - you can read them all, your mentor can read them and then explain to you, you can choose a few or just one to read; it's really all up to you. We're giving you the tools, but you shape your own course together.

The Activities

Some related to description:

Mentor gives their mentee fictional situations. As in: "Matt and Mike are in a cafeteria, to talk about Mike's betrayal with Jim." Mentee describes - they don't write THE STORY, they write about that exact moment the mentor gave them; describing the place, the feelings hanging in the air, the character's faces and the thoughts in their minds.

the mentor chooses three paintings and their mentee has to describe them using all the five senses. There must be at least one instance where each sense is used.

More related to vocabulary building:

mentor gives their mentee a list of five-to-ten words straight out of a random vocabulary search, that must be used in a story. This can be followed-up with an exercise where a story is written using their synonyms, or antonyms.

settings-specific vocabulary. The protagonist is an architect? Well, he probably needs to know certain terms. The story is set in World War I? Needs consistency. The mentor decides a specific setting/genre, researches a set number of random concepts/words included in it, gives them to the mentee to use in a short story.

a small reading list of good short stories with elaborate vocabulary wouldn't be bad, if your mentor can provide one.

Small note: all these activities can be mixed and matched. For example, mixing the painting exercise with the five random words one. It raies the difficulty bar, but difficulty can be fun.

So what do you want to see from us before the lesson is over?

From the activities above, if you do happen to write a piece resulting from any of them, please note us a link to it so we can include it in our Mentorship Project folder.

Do you need someplace to meet up and talk? A great idea is exchanging skype details, or meet up in theWrittenRevolution's chatroom, it's at your disposal. (:

What Now?

Now you start working on the lesson! The next one will be posted on March 5th, so you have until then.