"Time to Focus" Introduction

I chose "Time to Focus" as my piece for the descriptive writing piece. This was written at the beginning of the quarter and it is one of my favorite pieces I've written. "Time to Focus" is about the football locker room at my high school where all the guys met to get ready for our Friday night games. The reason I chose this is because of the very descriptive detail I used to describe the locker room. I feel I painted a clear image for the reader. I've noticed that one of my greatest strengths as a writer is my use of pinpoint detail and I feel like this essay demonstrates that more than most of my other pieces. One example of my descriptive use to describe the locker room is, "The outdated tile is covered with cleat-patterned grass clumps everyone tracked in. Dirty socks and knee pads wander off from their owners and scatter themselves under the beaten wood benches. The history of the football program is taped to the walls with scores telling the outcome of past games."