Pen Portraits
Develop your vocabulary and exercise your imagination by conjuring up a mermaid on the shore, or a train waiting at the station.
Coventry Patmore, by John Singer Sargent (1856–1925).
By John Singer Sargent (1856–1925), via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
Introduction
Choose one of the nouns below, and then collect as many words connected with it as you can. When you have gathered at least three words, see if you can compose an interesting scene or little story from them. You will find this much easier if you remember to include some sort of action.
