Details

One aspect that I enjoy about writing is adding details. Details can give a scene realism and paint a picture in the reader’s mind of the environment. They provide an added layer of depth that makes the scene and characters stand out.

But details can be overdone, and when they are, it can be tiring to read through. It’s like reading a passage with a bunch of superfluous and ornate words, and by the time you get through it, you wonder what you just read. The same can happen with an overabundance of details. The long list of details make it seem like everything that was described was important, but at the expense of exhausting the reader’s memory and patience.

For me, adding details give more depth to a story and the characters (such as their backstory), and it helps the reader to visualize the events that are taking place. But when the details pile up to the point that there are too many things to remember, it can have the opposite effect that was intended.