{"id":359,"date":"2021-09-24T13:16:05","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T13:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/?p=359"},"modified":"2021-09-24T13:16:07","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T13:16:07","slug":"descriptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/24\/descriptions\/","title":{"rendered":"Descriptions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I have been working hard on creating a certain kind of novel, a horror, which means the description is done in a certain way. I cannot be describing things and people in cute ways, that would not create the type of environment that I am going for. Cute may be good for kid books and love books, but when it comes to horror, cute goes out the window. So how do I use description to my advantage? I can create an environment of horror by describing it with a darker nature in mind. Such as a person could describe a hotel room as comfortable and clean, I can switch it up a little and say that the hotel room is dark and gloomy. well, I would go into much more detail than that but I wanted a quick example. The world around us can be described in two ways, the nicer way or the darker way. And when I am writing horror I much find ways to take something that can be cute and cuddly and turn it into something darker. I find it can be hard sometimes just as it can come to me easily. But writing horror is not always easy. It is not something experience so it takes a lot of creativity to write stuff that you do not know. But for me, I do some research and try to use description to my advantage. Also a good addition is to use the old tool of who, what, when, where, and how. It can also help in a description, I will go into more detain in my next blog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What do you do?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" src=\"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/moon-1859616_640.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"360\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/moon-1859616_640.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/?attachment_id=360\" class=\"wp-image-360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/moon-1859616_640.jpg 640w, https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/moon-1859616_640-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/moon-1859616_640-210x140.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been working hard on creating a certain kind of novel, a horror, which means the description is done in a certain way. I cannot be describing things and people in cute ways, that would not create the type of environment that I am going for. Cute may be good for kid books and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":361,"href":"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions\/361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}