Descriptive Writing #1

Devices:
1. Use of adjectives, nouns and adverbs
    WARNING = adjectives must be deployed intelligently and with originality
2. Subordinate clauses add detail 
3. Commas, brackets and dashes can all be used to incorporate extra detail
4. Precise sensory detail 
5. Show - don't tell; suggest, don't shout (subtlety)
6. Structure: zoom, pull, focus

EG. 1

-   Mr. Wayman is my teacher. 

[turn into a descriptive sentence]

-   Mr. Wayman, a tall, slender, rag-haired and unshaven man, is my rather eccentric english teacher, who likes to grip our attention with many weird mannerisms. 

EG. 2
The man was tired. His....

The man was tired. His hair drooped over his rounded glasses, which vaguely covered his bulging, reddened eyes, and his smokers teeth, crooked with age, hid his pain. 

EG. 3
An elderly woman came into the room, she sat down in the old chair because she was so very tired. 

A bespectacled woman, hobbled in, with her silver hair glistening in the moonlight, and she slumped into the chair she had long missed, as the night crept into day.