Timeline for Tips and tricks to describe more
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| Jan 29, 2019 at 15:01 | comment | added | Cyn | Thanks for the additional information and the feedback, I appreciate it. | |
| Jan 29, 2019 at 13:16 | comment | added | Nyakouai | @Cyn While this is a great answer and I do take your point into account, it does not really address the issue - cause I feel I indeed miss more descriptions and have some readers thoroughly confused about some things in my story. But it was really helpful to read nonetheless | |
| Jan 28, 2019 at 0:49 | comment | added | Cyn | @EdGrimm I hear you. But I will say that you already wrote 3 great comments. Even just the comment starting with "I'm not the OP" followed by the comment starting with "I also struggle" would make an answer worthy of an upvote. Your choice, just want to encourage you but not pressure you. | |
| Jan 28, 2019 at 0:47 | comment | added | Ed Grimm | I've been working on it already. But words are hard and distractions are plentiful, so it will be a while. | |
| Jan 28, 2019 at 0:43 | comment | added | Cyn | @EdGrimm these are really good insights. My answer may work well for people like me (I sometimes tend towards sparse writing myself, then other times write too much) but not for people like you. It would be extremely helpful if you wrote your thoughts up into an answer, even if it was just your 3 comments with a light edit. We don't know what will work best for the OP but questions/answers are up for anyone to see and your answer will help someone. | |
| Jan 28, 2019 at 0:40 | comment | added | Ed Grimm |
I'm not the OP, but I feel I need to force myself, too. But I think you would probably understand why one might use that word if I showed you a 500 line story I wrote that had one line with no dialog at all and three or four lines that had some non-dialog bits like, she said on them. For some people descriptions are hard. As I'm reflecting a bit more on this, I also had the observation that describing things is particularly difficult for me, because I don't describe in my mind, I visualize. If I could draw, I could do that in lieu of describing. But I can't draw, either.
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| Jan 28, 2019 at 0:34 | comment | added | Cyn | @EdGrimm You're right, I don't know. My aim was to start off my answer with a frame challenge (maybe this isn't what you need) then move into how to get specific feedback if there is indeed a problem, and then how to translate the feedback into change. What I heard the OP asking was about how to force her/himself to describe things more, which to me sounded like s/he was overwhelmed by the task. I hoped to break it down in a way that reduced the workload. I hear you saying I did not succeed. | |
| Jan 28, 2019 at 0:26 | comment | added | Ed Grimm | I'm curious why you are so confident that the OP isn't asking this question due to feedback from a beta reader or writing group. I'm remembering back to when I first sought help for this particular issue, due to teachers and friends telling me I should describe things more, and I would generally get responses like this. It didn't help at all that my autism has made me prone to slink back in the corner after I've been denied help, rather than attempting to seek help further. | |
| Jan 27, 2019 at 19:05 | history | answered | Cyn | CC BY-SA 4.0 |