I was thinking that to train oneself as a writer one must try to describe the ordinary day to day activities of a person such as shaving in the morning, praying in a temple, riding a bicycle, cracking a joke at the dining table, or rushing towards food when you are terribly hungry.
It is best to develop skills in writing ordinary daily events in life before one attempts large public events or ceremonies like a political rally or a wedding. It is fraught with difficulty I bet, for one will soon struggle for the right word and turn of the phrase that best describes the scene as honestly and vividly as possible.
Fiction demands such narration, even if the characters are fictitious and the scenes are imagined and the plot is contrived: make the unreal real.
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