Make Everyone And Everything The Hero Of The Story

I publish more interesting stuff about the art of writing in my newsletter every fortnight. Please subscribe to my newsletter if you want to read them (and other goodies): My Newsletter

You can also visit my other interesting projects like 1001 Science Stories Project, 1001 Poems Project, 1001 Atomic Essays Project, 1001 Automations Project and 1001 Startup Theses Project

Writing Tip

Make everyone and everything - as you are writing about them - the temporary hero of whatever you are writing.

First mentioned/ideated by: Antoni Tapies

To write more descriptively and beautifully, you need to get yourself interested in people and things.
A clever way to do that is to make everyone (and everything), as you write about them, the temporary hero of what you are writing.

For example, in the paragraphs below, you can see how beautifully the painter Antoni Taipes has written about something as simple as a chair.

Writing on the connectedness of things, he says: “Take a look at the simplest of objects. Let's take, for example, an old chair. It seems like nothing.
But think of the universe comprised within it: the sweaty hands cutting the wood that used to be a robust tree, full of energy, in the middle of a luxuriant forest by some high mountains. The loving work that built it, the joyful anticipation of the one who bought it, the tired bodies it has helped, the pains and the joys it must have endured, whether in fancy halls or in a humble dining room in your neighborhood.
Everything, everything shares life and has its importance! Even the most worn down of chair carries inside the initial force of the sap climbing from the earth, out there in the forest, and will still be useful the day when, broken into kindling, it burns in some fireplace.”

Doesn't it feel that Antoni made the chair almost come alive in his words? Aren't you now totally totally interested in the chair? Don't you want to read even more about it?
And Antoni did that just by this simple psychological device of making the chair the main character of his writing for the moment and focusing on it to the exclusion of everything else.

Topics
Business Writing, Content Writing, Copywriting, Persuasive Writing, Creative Writing