Paint word pictures

     One goal of good descriptive and narrative writing is to use words to create scenes, characters, and feelings. Good novelists know how to create powerful word pictures in the reader's mind that allow him to visualize whatever the author is writing about. That's why many good novels are turned into movies. But the book is always better than the movie. The movie doesn't engage your imagination the same way a book does.  Watching a movie is passive, while reading a book is active. You can't put on the screen what the mind can imagine. Get into a book!