I wanted to work with noun and using them to create descriptions. To practice that and imitating other writer's styles, I picked a strategy from my copy of Image Grammar. Here is my attempt at a noun collage.
Image Grammar by Harry R. Noden
Chapter 5: Advanced Techniques
Strategy 1: Describe a Setting Using a Noun Collage
Imitation of Annie Proulx's The Shipping News
Epcot was bustling. A tour of identities, Chinese men in business suits with silk ties, French women in the latest fashions and finest perfumes, rose, lavender, peach, candy. Tall Russian men. Heads shaved and shined, polished into reflective mirrors. Sunshine. Golden rays of love. Irish men with green hats. Ethnicities like colored confetti, the world in bits and pieces. The business of many nations, a collage of life.
Image Grammar by Harry R. Noden
Chapter 5: Advanced Techniques
Strategy 1: Describe a Setting Using a Noun Collage
Imitation of Annie Proulx's The Shipping News
Epcot was bustling. A tour of identities, Chinese men in business suits with silk ties, French women in the latest fashions and finest perfumes, rose, lavender, peach, candy. Tall Russian men. Heads shaved and shined, polished into reflective mirrors. Sunshine. Golden rays of love. Irish men with green hats. Ethnicities like colored confetti, the world in bits and pieces. The business of many nations, a collage of life.
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