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What’s the big deal about writing descriptively? For one thing, it’s much more than page-filling fluff. Descriptive writing imprints images into the reader’s mind, making you feel as though you’re “right there.” It‘s all about engaging the five senses of sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch to transport the reader and stir emotion. By choosing vivid details and colorful words, good writers bring objects, people, places, and events to life. Instead of merely telling you what they see, they use their words to show you.

Writers use this powerful method to make their pieces memorable—even brilliant—rather than dry and boring. In many ways, description is the most important kind of writing you can learn. Why? Because it supports other reasons for writing such as storytelling, informative reports, or persuasion.

from: https://writeshop.com/choosing-vocabulary-to-describe-a-place/

The following video explains how descriptive writing can also use strong verbs, alliteration, adjectives, similes.