How can we describe a room’s contents in a way that doesn’t just feel like a jumbled inventory of details and things? In Part 3 of How to Describe a Room, we turn our attention to describing the contents of a room, as well as considering how what’s there can influence the order and trajectory of our descriptions.
We look specifically at:
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Neil Aitken is an award-winning author, editor, and creative writing coach who has been playing D&D since the Red Box set in the 1980s. He holds both a PhD in Literature & Creative Writing from USC and an MFA in Creative Writing from UC Riverside. Prior to pursuing graduate work in creative writing, he worked as a computer games programmer for Knowledge Adventure and Vivendi Universal Games.