Use active verbs if you want powerful prose.

On the first day of Christmas, my true love sent to me, a writing tip in an email.🎄

In this short article:

• Want engaging prose? You should use strong, active verbs to describe static objects.

What is the orange doing?

Imagine this:

There was an orange on my table. On top of the orange was a peanut.

Did your imagined scene look anything like the photograph below?

Probably not!