This document provides examples of how to start descriptive sentences and discusses writing techniques for descriptions. It offers prepositional phrases, adverbial phrases, and suggests using metaphor, alliteration, sensory language, similes, imagery, emotive verbs to open descriptive sentences. It then analyzes an opening Gothic paragraph and asks how to improve upon the sentence "I woke up to a thud from downstairs" by expanding it into a descriptive Gothic paragraph using literary devices.