What people do or say are the most interesting type of stories. Humor identifies us as humans. Be flexible and deliver your message in human terms. Be concise and use active nouns, verbs and connecting words. The trombones played their metallic notes like a burst of machine gunfire.
Writing involves painting word pictures.
Use color and timbre as an artist of words. Involve readers in a manner in which they can use their senses to replicate your ideas with an object, concept or idea they also recognize. Pull readers into the story. Write a topic sentence so important that a reader will want to continue. B. Select three or four key points.