The issue people fail to realize is that language is quite lossy in terms of information. The way you make up for that to clarify ambiguity is through verbosity.

If you can't read and write long emails (or voice/video chat), you're going to have miscommunication. Experience and knowledge can only be used so far to interpolate and extrapolate. No matter how skilled you are at this, clarification will be needed in some form or another.

In cases where whoever you're working with doesn't know exactly what they want and give you what is essentially artistic liberty to fill those voids, you can reduce communication some but be warned, you may create the wrong thing and have to double back or worse, you may find out much later when its not viable to fix something was off.

I'm a fan of long emails or conversations to be certain I understand what's needed.