Today's musical inspiration comes with pictures not sound - imagine waking here at daybreak to a thousand-strong cicada orchestra. Magical! Ear-splitting.
Avoiding adjective overload in my writing has become a focus. Mark Twain's advice is: "As to the Adjective; when in doubt, strike it out... They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are wide apart."
See below, sans adjectives, snaps from a writing spot somewhere on the Australian east coast...
