Better Writing Initiative: Description
Better Writing Initiative is an exercise at improving writing techniques.
Description uses a picture as inspiration to describe a scene, or parts thereof.
Alice got up and stretched, opening a bottle of coke. It was warm and sunny on the clearing, though not too hot, so thankfully the thin fabric of her tent wasn’t sticking to her skin, even though she had slept naked. Well, not just slept naked, she camped naked. Or, at least almost naked, if the flimsy short pants counted at all. So far away from civilization, it seemed pointless to wear much clothing, after all. Who was going to see her? Andy, the asshole, who ran away two days ago? They had fought, again, over stupid little shit, as usual, but this time he seemed to have had enough. Took off with the car and all of her cash, leaving her out here stranded.
Well, she thought, at least she still had the provisions and all the camping equipment. And besides, she was great at this, the outdoors, survival, finding her way in the wilderness, even without help or guidance. She might look like a city girl, with her red lipstick and high heels, the fake blonde hair and carefully applied makeup, but that was For all she knew, she would be running across Andy, getting lost on the camping trails, out of gas, desperate, hungry, who knows what. The thought filled her with a strange sense of satisfaction. Would she help him? Perhaps, she mused, taking a sip from the bottle, and then looked wistfully into the distance.
Image is by Alice Bolton and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Generic License.