This week at The Writes: setting versus inventory, revealing other characters' inner life, focusing your feedback for another writer, and what you can learn from a book you didn't like.
You may like this: why less of a description can be more powerful. Or, as a friend put it, “I like that you haven’t bothered to describe everything in detail. We’ve all got TV, we all know what this place looked like - or at least, we all have our own ideas.”
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You may like this: why less of a description can be more powerful. Or, as a friend put it, “I like that you haven’t bothered to describe everything in detail. We’ve all got TV, we all know what this place looked like - or at least, we all have our own ideas.”
https://mattkelland.substack.com/p/dont-bother-telling-me-ive-got-a
Absolutely. The most important detail about a description is why is matters—what it means to the viewpoint character or how they feel about it.