Writers In The Storm Blog

Here’s Shannon Donnelly with 12 tips to help you gather “just enough” details for your story!

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There’s a dilemma that faces every writer of fiction—when is enough enough? When do you need more details to help the reader “see” the scene? And when do the details become distracting devils?

The answer seems obvious: When setting interferes with the story—with pace or plot—it must be cut back.

But that’s too easy an out. Cut back on the details, and what’s left often edges too far into being a costume drama for any historical fiction.

Even stories set in modern times, like the Urban Fantasies I write—Burn Baby Burn and Riding in on a Burning Tire—need some level of research (hey, all that mythology has to be grounded).

A mixture of textures from physical environment is key to evoke the illusion of reality. A writer evokes…

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