Have you signed up for 750words.com yet? Or will you try doing 750 words on paper? I’ve just completed my 20th day of doing 750 words!
Here’s another creative writing prompt for your 750 words, a challenge to write 750 words each day in January to better Think Like a Writer. The next three days of Thinking Like a Writer are all connected and I’ll explain it here, then just remind you of the prompts for the next two days.
A scan is a way to show a crowd scene economically, yet in an interesting way. It involves a series of small zooms: the quarterback’s mother is taping the game with a new video camera that she borrowed money to buy; the coach’s pencil is hovering over two names, trying to decide if he’ll start the injured quarterback or his backup; the head cheerleader is trying to shake off a headache and wondering if that red pill the quarterback gave her would help or not. In a short paragraph, you get the complexities of the crowd!
As always, start with the basic sensory details list, but this time you skip around. You can do full details for the coach, the quarterback’s mother, the quarterback, and the head cheerleader if you want; or you can do partials for each, but focus on getting great “telling details.” If you’re rusty on doing sensory details–and you have to fill out your 750 words anyway–go ahead and do the full sensory details list for each. Then you’ll have a wide selection to choose from as you Think Like a Writer.
And when would you use a Scan?
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Isn’t this the library from Disney’s Beauty and the Beast? It sure does look like heaven.
[...] Readers, librarians, bibliophilies, don’t miss this panoramic library view. (Nod librarian.net) [...]
Is it St. Florian Monastery-Library, Austria.
http://www.thegentlemanscholar.com/Famous_Libraries.html
(It’s about halfway down the page)
I think it is the St. Florian Library in Austria.
http://www.library.calligraphy-mvk.ru/content/view/36/63/lang,english/
I don’t know where it is but it is heavenly!
My search has confirmed Mary Danko’s guess:
http://cms.ttg.at/websites/stflorian/intro.htm
If you watch the images on this page, you will recognize the library…
Further into the site:
http://cms.ttg.at/alias/stift-st-florian/kunst/270306/bibliothek.html?&_lang=en
My only comment…”Can I have one?” And, I have no idea where this is except possibly, Library Heaven.
i think, its the “Stiftsbibliothek St. Gallen”
http://www.stiftsbibliothek.ch/index.asp
But - anyway - its heaven!!