Excerise time! (Working with description.)
Since everyone loved the other exercises I posted, I've decided that, to make the comm more active, I should post them more often! So to start off, we're going to work with description.
Pick something on your desk, or one the objects lying around you and describe it with vivid detail. Give it character, build a story around it. Make it interesting--or find the interest in that object. Why is it there? What is it's purpose? How would it feel, if it could? What is it's connection to the owner?
You can also describe a setting, animal, or something in nature. Maybe from one of these pictures: