Compare the following two images, the first written by a high school student, the second by well-known novelist Brian Jacques:

          It was winter. Everything was frozen and white with snow. Snow had fallen from the sky for days. The weather was horrible.

          Mossflower lay deep in the grip of midwinter beneath a sky of leaden gray that showed tinges of scarlet and orange on the horizon. A cold mantle of snow draped the landscape, covering the flatlands to the west. Snow was everywhere, filling the ditches, drifting high against the hedgerows, making paths invisible, smoothing the contours of earth in its white embrace. --- Mossflower by Brian Jacques