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Originally Posted by Kiyoto
People have insulted me at times and said my longer posts and stuff are just a lot of fluff. I think their good but,...eh
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No one has ever told me my longer posts are just fluff, but I feel that way about my long posts sometimes...
But I don't write fluff very well. When I write my own fanfics or stories, it's all over-detailed anguish and me describing inner pain and turmoil rather than fluff.
I always feel like I dumb things down too much for my readers. Like, I over-describe things because I have a clear image of it in my head and I want others to see it THE EXACT SAME WAY. But the thing is, I am trying to learn to let go out that and let my readers decide for themselves what they want to picture.
Like, instead of saying, "Edith sat down on the large, green chair with the wooden legs in the shape of bones and pondered her escape." I am going to say, "Edith sat down on the large, green chair and pondered her escape." Because I shouldn't be wasting my time explaining the little details to my readers when I should be spending that effort making my plot better, making my scenes better and making the story progress.
I think that's where I trip up a lot even in RP. I get too caught up in describing little details that I find I don't progress in plot or really do much with my character. I can easily waste four good paragraphs on nothing but describing my character bending over and picking up something.