Post #3399568
2026-02-04 15:37 UTC
#WritersCoffeeClub day 4: How much detail do you use to describe your settings?
It varies depending on how important the setting is, and whether I expect there to be any action in it that requires the reader to really understand things about the setting that'll be relevant (layout, items available, whatever).
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@kagan@wandering.shop 2026-02-05 16:18
#WritersCoffeeClub day 5: What’s a trait of other written works you admire, but don’t seek to incorporate in your own works? I highly respect when a horror writer can put an image in my head that lives there, rent-free, still giving me the creeps from time to time even decades later.* But that's not what I want to do to my readers. (If it were, I'd be writing horror, not urban fantasy.) * For example, Clive Barker's short story "The Body Politic", which I read sometime around 1990.