Details Abound

Details can seem annoying when you’re reading (too much scenery or a paragraph endlessly describing how a room looks), and I’m often told by students that they skip those parts.  Even so, when details are connected to events and dialogue, they add a lot of depth. Your challenge, should you choose to accept, is to add interesting details to these boring sentences, without writing a whole paragraph.  One sentence limit for each!  Heck, Hemingway wrote a one sentence story:  “For sale:  Baby shoes, never worn.” Here you go: We had fish for supper. Ivan sniffed, then sneezed. One man yelled, “Bravo!”