For June, I posed a series of questions — with, as always, a few verbal restrictions — to five authors with new books: Kate Angus (“So Late to the Party”), Ramona Ausubel (“Sons and Daughters of Ease ...

Most forms of writing involve description. For example, in a short story characters and places need to feel real for the reader. Description of events, feelings and atmosphere helps to achieve this.

In your English language exam, you’ll be asked to create a piece of narrative or descriptive writing. Narrative writing tells story. This could be made up by you or based on something you’ve ...