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<blockquote data-quote="pming" data-source="post: 8489511" data-attributes="member: 45197">Hiya!Talk to yourself...out loud.Seriously. It's one thing to come up with a cool description on-the-fly in your head or typing it out...but it's quite different when you are trying to SAY it out loud as you think it up.Practice changing the tone and pacing of your words to elicit some sort of &quot;feeling&quot;... humour, anticipation, dread, fear, excitement, etc.Take a sentence and try saying it in different ways to get different results.For example, &quot;The door is old, made of oak or walnut maybe. Bands of rusted black iron, three of them, hold the door together, with three large hinges. A single, brass ring for a simple pull-handle is in the very center&quot;.Now try saying it in a manner that tries to elicit: Dread. Excitement. Happiness. You'll have to use pacing, tone and different words maybe.E.g., (Excitement) &quot;The old oaken door has THREE black iron bands around it. Sturdy and solid. Three iron hinges grasp the wall to hold it in place. A SINGLE, polished brass ring is it's handle, set in the center&quot;.(Humour) &quot;The old oak door is bound by three dark iron bands. Not four. Five is right out. Three is the number of the bands, and the number of the band is... three. Hinges, as well, are three. Neither do thou count 2, nor 4. Three is the number of the counting, and the number of the counting shall be... three. Oh...and there's a brass ring to open it...straight up the middle. That's where all the action is&quot;.The trick is to be able to do that simply on-the-fly, speaking it. I can write it down like this no problem...speaking it off the cuff? That takes practice. And the only way to get better is to do it...so... go talk to yourself. Give yourself a picture, then describe it to yourself out loud as if you would to your Players.^_^Paul L. Ming</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pming, post: 8489511, member: 45197"] Hiya! Talk to yourself...out loud. Seriously. It's one thing to come up with a cool description on-the-fly in your head or typing it out...but it's quite different when you are trying to SAY it out loud as you think it up. Practice changing the tone and pacing of your words to elicit some sort of "feeling"... humour, anticipation, dread, fear, excitement, etc. Take a sentence and try saying it in different ways to get different results. For example, "The door is old, made of oak or walnut maybe. Bands of rusted black iron, three of them, hold the door together, with three large hinges. A single, brass ring for a simple pull-handle is in the very center". Now try saying it in a manner that tries to elicit: Dread. Excitement. Happiness. You'll have to use pacing, tone and different words maybe. E.g., (Excitement) "The old oaken door has THREE black iron bands around it. Sturdy and solid. Three iron hinges grasp the wall to hold it in place. A SINGLE, polished brass ring is it's handle, set in the center". (Humour) "The old oak door is bound by three dark iron bands. Not four. Five is right out. Three is the number of the bands, and the number of the band is... three. Hinges, as well, are three. Neither do thou count 2, nor 4. Three is the number of the counting, and the number of the counting shall be... three. Oh...and there's a brass ring to open it...straight up the middle. That's where all the action is". The trick is to be able to do that simply on-the-fly, speaking it. I can write it down like this no problem...speaking it off the cuff? That takes practice. And the only way to get better is to do it...so... go talk to yourself. Give yourself a picture, then describe it to yourself out loud as if you would to your Players. ^_^ Paul L. Ming [/QUOTE]

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