How would you describe it?

Plings contains a lot of descriptions of positive activities. But far too often those descriptions are not written with young people in mind, nor with the aim of attracting young people to get involved in a new activity.

Often we find activity descriptions making it into Plings which have been written more for managers than for young people, or which do little more than restate what the activity title says. If each activity listing in Plings is in effect an advert for that activity – then having good copy matters. We’ve been working with freelance writer David Masters to explore how we can create model activity descriptions which are clear, attractive and engaging. And of course, the best way to get started in that is to go to young people and find out how they would describe different activities.

So, at 2morro festival yesterday we invited as many young people as possible to fill in ‘Describe It’ cards, writing of drawing how they would describe any of a wide range of activities.

We’ve scanned in all the results, and you can see them below, or at describe.plings.net.

(Click an image in the Slideshow below to go to it’s Flickr page where the title will tell you what sort of activity was being described…)