Make note of this on your micro SD chip: always remember to look for unique ways to describe common events. That helps set your work apart from the rest.
I love using an example from my college writing professor, Terry Davis. In one of his manuscripts, he has a man get into a moment of violence that ends when another character takes a shot at him and blows the man’s hand off.
Now, an unimaginative writer would probably describe such an event fairly mundanely. Like so:
Ron took his shot at me, and my hand exploded, showering me with blood.
“You shot my hand off, you bastard,” I screamed at him.
Kind of thing that can happen quite often in an action sequence, right? But that’s not how Davis described the event at all. Instead, Davis described the moment of the shot like so:
…and my hand dissolved into a fine cranberry mist.
See how much more memorable that sounds? Always remember that there are fresh ways to describe even the most common of events.
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