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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Berandor" data-source="post: 2442952" data-attributes="member: 225">I don't know how useful I can get, but I'll try. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />One thing to do would be to look at your favorite author and how he does things you'd like to improve on, and then try to emulate him. If it seems you're copying his/her style, that's not a problem. Sooner or later, you'll develop your own style. I know  I can look at stories I wrote and say "That's when I read Stephen King, and that's my Terry Pratchett phase, and here I discovered Elizabeth George, ..." Even now, the books and authors I read inspire me, and sometimes months or years later something crops up in a story that is clearly based on something I've read.Another option would depend on your personality. If you're a very visual person (as I am), then imagining the scene might help you. Try to see it in your mind, every detail, and what might happen. Pull images from your experience. Have you ever seen someone get beaten in school? What happened? What do you usually put on a table outside of school? Are there papers, pens to get knocked over? A soft drink that can spill? Are there pupils playing football, or some students sitting on the lawn? The same with people talking. Imagin your friends Maxine and Sean when they say something. How does it differ between the two? Maxine's always pulling at her hair, saying everything in a nasal whine, and Sean's constantly chewing gum and mumbling the last syllable of longer words?If you're an analytical person (as I pretend to be), you might make a checklist instead. What could happen, and what does probably happen? What are the different ways a person can say something or react to something? What way is most fitting here?And the last way to improve would be to simply try. Try to include descritpions in different ways until you find one that feels natural. If you're not sure, solicit opinions, like here. There are also writer's message boards and mailing lists that might help you, as well as friends and family (but tell them to be honest! that's very important. You don't want to be the guy/gal on TV whose parents say they're the best singer ever, and out comes a tonal nightmare, unless you want to be a fifteen-minute-internet fad).I'm not a teacher for creative writing, so my suggestions are more "self-help" than anything. If you want a book on writing, Stephen King's "On Writing" (incidentially) is one of the better ones out there. And there are a *lot* out there.</blockquote>

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