Sheila Bender

Write your first drafts, seek response, and then use the response you receive from trusted readers to help you as you develop your essays

Chapter III

The Description Essay

Write Question #1: For what person, place, event, or object do I have strong feelings of love or hate?

The Courage to Create

requires good descriptions.

How can readers hold on to what an author says in any piece of writing if they cannot see what the author sees, hear what she hears, taste what she tastes, smell what she smells, and touch what she touches?

Learning the elements of a good description essay and practice conjuring details and images that appeal to the senses will help you overcome these feelings and be able to o

your readers (as well as yourself) the written experience of the people, places, events and objects in your life. A

Sometimes, as you write, you discover that you have way more complex feelings and experience associated with a person, place, event or object than you thought.

seven other essay styles.

To begin, ask, “For what person, place, event, or object in my life do I have strong feelings of love or hate?”