Have you ever felt like your story has little life? You wonder why it seems dead a bit. You may be like me that you don’t think about the things around the characters as much as you do the characters themselves. You feel like the character is the only thing alive.


Your writing, basically feels DEAD. But, there is a solution, don’t worry. I’ll call it ‘Making the world alive’ Now I’m not saying you add millions of details about the world, and barely focus on the character. No.


Ton of details can get Boring...


But, the thing is, if you make the objects around the character alive, as if they are people as well. Then BOOM, your world and story, gains life.


Now, I’m not saying that a house is gonna walk around and smile like a person. (Unless you are writing some super crazy fantasy or science fiction story) But, your going to describe it, just as you would describe
characters in a story.



Here, I’ll give you some, to make it clearer to you if you don’t exactly understand.



‘The grass slowly blew in the prairie as if waving to on comingtraffic’



Or


‘The wind slowly blew as if kissing her cheeks’


Now, you can do it much better, those are just ideas or explanations of exactly what I mean.

But, if you make the world around your character alive, you make the character more alive, and that, is one of the biggest most important parts of a story.


Now, It might come hard to some, I mean me I feel like adding details makes my writing feel BORING… that’s why much of what you see is lacking details. But, the reader doesn’t want to just see the character, they want to see the world around them, that is bursting with life!


Imagine reading something like
this:



‘Footsteps follow behind me. They were after me. My heart beat quickens in my chest. Voices fill the tunnel’



You think it sounds good? Well, how much better does this sound? V



Loud, long, footsteps follow behind me. They were after me. My heart quickens in my chest, anxiously. Voices fill the dark, tunnel, echoing all around me.


Which one do you prefer, the top or the bottom? The bottom right? It has much more description. See how just by adding a few words in description make it sounds much more lively?

But, that's the thing, you need to explain the place around you more. (I could have done better lol) But, you get the point.


Also don't hesitate with using the word ‘like’ to describe things.


I'm not saying to do it all of the time/over use it, because that is one hundred percent possible, no a lot of my favorite books and some of the top authors use ‘like’ to describe things, and it makes it sound much better. Once again you can over use the word, don’t use it to often, but make sure you use it if you want to add description.



'The pattering of the rain was like that of
the cluttering of an empty can'




Or you could also do
this instead.





‘The pattering
sound of the rain was like that of the cluttering of an empty can’





Also, there are ways to add to much description of to describe things in a way that doesn’t sound right, but description really makes a big difference.



So make the world around your character/characters alive. Who wants to read a book about a dead world. You? Definitely not me.

So add life to the world, and your story gains more life then ever!