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Location, Location, Location: A Way into Descriptive Writing

By: Ray Skjelbred
Publication: The Quarterly, Vol. 18, No. 4
Date: Fall 1996

Summary: Skjelbred provides strategies to sharpen "location writing," ways to understand the importance of small detail, to choose words for accuracy and sensory impact, to avoid quick subjective judgments about what we see.

 

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