Re:Stephen King: “Everything You Need to Know About Writing ...
by snowwrestler on Monday April 13, 2015 @03:38PM
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When you're trying to build a richly detailed world in your readers' minds, "as little as possible" might still be quite a lot of writing. But even such a detailed piece of work can suffer from superflous words and pointlessly convoluted grammar. Every letter of a finely crafted piece of writing should contribute to the intended effect.
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Re:Stephen King: “Everything You Need to Know About Writing ...
by jcfrei on Monday April 13, 2015 @04:39PM
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This is one of the problems I've had back in my teens when I was reading fiction. Especially authors of fantasy or science fiction novels seemed to be very keen to describe their worlds in the most intricate details possible. And as a result they became very strenuous to read to the point where I simply stopped reading them at all. I think (and this is entirely subjective) that if you need to describe your fictional world in such perfect detail then maybe a book is simply the wrong medium. Then you should maybe opt for drawing a comic, where you can put all the power of your imagination into actual pictures.