This exercise comes from the book: Writing Without the Muse by Beth Baruch Joselow
Describe a place that you know well–a childhood bedroom, for example, or the kitchen you now use. Limit your description to about three paragraphs.
Now describe the same place again, this time choosing a tone from the list below. Communicate this mood through your description. Repeat this exercise for as many qualities from the list as you like. (You may, if you wish, substitute a person you know well for a place you know well)
Moods:
anger, love, boredom, anxiety, fear, impatience, shyness, condescension, nostalgia, happiness, desire, weariness, deceit, awe.
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