Creative Descriptions For Fantasy Novels

Creativity comes from an active imagination. As with every other skill, whether in sport, art or calculation, practice and exercise is necessary for improvement. So here is the first simple tip to help improve your creative Fantasy writing skills.

Write Everyday

That's easy and it's obvious, but some days your muse is slow to rise. We use the right side of our brain to daydream and for creativity. Our muse allows us to escape from the mundane plain of reality. Don't panic. Let your imagination take control. Need inspiration? Look at your shopping list. Can you take five items from the list and use them to describe a meal? Find those words you have stored for later retrieval, use a thesaurus stretch your vocabulary. There will be time later to hone the excess, for now we want to wallow in words.
 

Describe each object. Forget brand names or conventional jargon. Give the object a new name, for a new fantastic world. Be inventive. Be creative. Let your imagination run wild. Address each sense; smell/taste, touch/texture, sight, hearing. Describe how the object makes you feel.
 

Here is an example: Take an ordinary tomato. Did I hear you mutter "Big, red, round" You are a creative writer! You can do better. It is no longer a tomato. Think of the fruit, hold it, smell it, imagine biting into it. Let the right side of brain guide your muse.

The ripe fruit threatens to burst through the membrane of skin. Smelling of the vine, baked under a summer sun, red flesh weighs heavy in my hand. Light skims across the smooth surface, slowed by the spread of rough foliage around the stem. In a moment of silent anticipation, saliva flows as anticipation spurs each gland. Try this exercise yourself.