Writers as:
Naturalists: Is a tree always a tree? What do you make of a leaf, a bird, or a lump of dirt? Can you describe a bee, a dog, or a horse? What about depicting a lamb, a cow, could that be a problem? Can your reader feel the breeze, smell the roses of perhaps the cold of the fallen snow?
Portrait painter: Portraits can be painted in words, depicting every emotion from bliss or joy to sadness or distress and all between. Can you capture the lift of an eyebrow, the texture of skin, the sparkle of an eye, the colour of hair the shape of an ear? Have you adequately described facial expression, anatomical form, odour, deformity and what of blood, sweat and tears?
Comedians: Can you encompass the levity, the satire, the repartee? Are you the joker, or the jester, the wit or the wag? Do you employ the double entendre, are you whimsical or jocular, perhaps farcical or even droll? Can you be comic, hilarious or playful?
Photographers: Have you recorded the detail, the precision, the accuracy? Is your picture true to life or are you chasing the negative, the shadow? Is your subject photogenic at all?
Linguists: Have you captured the lingua franca, the lingo, the slang, the accent of the time, the place, the situation?Does your wordplay dance to the appropriate music?
Just remember: the devil is in the detail!
Terrific idea here Lorraine. You could embody it even more by playing up each of the modes in your own writing - eg. Load your portrait painter section with colour-words, texture-words, paint-words; be a clown in the comedian section etc.
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