Exercise your weakest writing muscle: Why you should take notes when going up volcanoes

Reflecting on wild moments

My biggest writing weakness is descriptions. Without. A. Doubt. I happily skip telling the reader what to see, smell, taste, and hear, and go straight to the action and dialogue and the feelings. I really have to work hard on the descriptions in the editing phase. I often don’t observe or remember what places are like beyond the visual, and so I have a …