70 Collections to Infuse Your Writing

For the next few months, weekly writing tips will include word choice suggestions. That includes:

• colorful and original descriptions
• pithy words and phrases
• picture nouns and action verbs
• writing that draws a reader in and addicts them to your voice

I keep a  collection of descriptions that have pulled me into the books. I’m fascinated how authors can–in just a few words–put me in the middle of their story and make me want to stay there. I’ve shared 48 themes in the past:

A note: These are for inspiration only. They can’t be copied because they’ve been pulled directly from an author’s copyrighted manuscript (intellectual property is immediately copyrighted when published).

1. Actions That Are Timeless
2. Actions (Era-Specific)
3. American
4. Appearance
5. Body Language
6. Body Parts
7. Body Parts–Moving
8. Character Traits
9. Clothing–General
10. Clothing—Women’s
11. Depression
12. Dogs
13. Emotion Part I
14. Emotion Part III
15. Emotion–A to D
16. Emotion–E to O
17. Emotions
18. Emotion–S to Z
19. Fascinating Character
20. Fight
21. Genius
22. Hacker
23. Headaches
24. Homes I
25. Homes II
26. Horses
27. Intel Devices
28. Jobs
29. Landscape–African
30. Landscape—General
31. Memorable
32. Nature
33. Neighborhood
34. Noses, Mouths, Legs, and more
35. Pain
36. Protagonist
37. Sensory Actions
38. Sick and Illnesses
39. Sickness and Illness
40. Sight and Eyes
41. Similes
42. Sneak Around
43. Sound
44. Talking
45. Time
46. Vehicles–Cars, Boats, Planes, More
47. Weird Traits
48. Wild Animals

Over the next months, I’ll add 21 more. The links below won’t be active until the post is up. If you arrive at the link early, please come back!

1. Animals
2. Birds
3. Buildings Homes I
4. Buildings Homes II
5. Buildings–Neighborhoods
6. Buildings–Work
7. Detectives
8. Eating and Drinking
9. Family
10. Furnishings
11. Geeks
12. Geeky-Techie
13. Law Enforcement
14. People
15. Room
16. Scents
17. Spies
18. Ticks
19. Transitions
20. Weather
21. Workouts

All of these are for inspiration only. They can’t be copied because they’ve been pulled directly out of an author’s copyrighted manuscript (intellectual property is immediately copyrighted).

When you read the collections, I’d love to have you add your descriptions.

Jacqui Murray is the author of the popular Building a Midshipman, the story of her daughter’s journey from high school to United States Naval Academy. She is the author/editor of over a hundred books on integrating tech into education, adjunct professor of technology in education, webmaster for four blogs, an Amazon Vine Voice book reviewer,  a columnist for TeachHUB, Editorial Review Board member for Journal for Computing Teachers, monthly contributor to Today’s Author and a freelance journalist on tech ed topics. You can find her book at her publisher’s website, Structured Learning.

Jacqui Murray

https://jacquimurray.net