Heh. This sounds very familiar, except the “made it to the end” bit. To be fair, I wrote 80k on that story—terrifyingly, that didn’t bring it...
Oooo-kay, that’s a wall of text about letting go of an old story. Hope it resonates and all—and based on your last post, I think it might. But...
Oof, oof, ouch. Dragon, I haven’t got any qualifications to give advice here—haven’t published anything yet, and I’m still plodding away at a...
I feel like honestly, knowing what you need to describe and what you’re trying to say by describing it will get you most of the way there. It’s...
I think you almost need to write the initial meander--until you get to the stage where you don't, I suppose. I have an example from my writing of...
Yes, thank you Fifth—you’ve explained something I didn’t know how to get across besides rewriting the passage and gesticulating hopefully... It’s...
This is precisely my issue with talking about description in general. I hesitated about whether even to post what I did in this thread or in...
Phew. You could say any number of things about writing description--and what's tough is that it may or may not be useful depending on the writer...
