writing adventurous description

Creative writing obviously involves writing description and although most writers tend to write what might be called `conventional’ description others are more adventurous

For example, the American writer Thomas Harris uses adventurous description in (at least) one of his novels when he uses the descriptive term `…the rusty Baltimore dawn…’, the British writer Len Deighton uses it in (at least) one of his novels when he uses the descriptive term `…London was the bottom of a drained aquarium…’(the periods indicate that the quotations are part of a sentence or paragraph.
Of course, the dawn over Baltimore wasn’t really rusty, it was a rusty colour, a kind of deep red. Of course, London wasn’t really the bottom of a drained aquarium, it had been raining heavily so it was wet and dripping like the bottom of a drained aquarium.

Advantages of writing adventurous description

If you do use adventurous description, your readers might remember it long after they have finished reading the story in which it was used. For example, I last read the Thomas Harris book about three years ago and the Len Deighton book about 10 years ago.
The conclusion has to be that writers that use this kind of description are sometimes associated with it. As a natural  progression from this they might also be associated with adventurous writing, and as a natural progression from this they might also be regarded as being adventurous, ie. original, writers.
As a natural progression from the above it’s possible that anyone else that uses adventurous description might also be regarded as an adventurous, original writer.

Disadvantages of writing adventurous description

On ther other hand  it might be too obtuse, a little too adventurous, for some of your readers. With this in mind, it probably isn’t a good idea to over-use it. As far as I recall, these writers only use it ocassionally, they mostly tend to write more conventional description.