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Had a chat with a high school English teacher that changed how I approach pacing
She told me she skips whole paragraphs in books if the description drags, and it made me realize I've been over-detailing my scenes. Now I'm cutting 30% of my descriptions in my current draft, and the story actually moves better. Has anyone else gotten feedback that totally flipped your writing process?
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faithb7615d ago
Skipping parts trains you to write boring stuff, not to fix it.
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lee_butler15d ago
lol yeah my first draft of anything reads like a checklist of bad habits. i once skipped a whole section about how the characters meet because i thought "eh theyll figure it out" and ended up with a 3 page scene of two people just staring at each other. boring doesnt even cover it, it was painful to read back. at least now i know that skipping parts just means i gotta go back and write even more awkward filler later.
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