There’s an Apple productivity blogger and podcaster named David Sparks, who seems sincerely to have all his shit tied up neatly, as far as personal and professional productivity systems go. The impression one gets is that just by waking up in the morning, he sets off an automated chain of scripts …
In Writing, Sensory Detail Serves Scenic Detail
Sensory detail for its own sake is boring.
Nobody can reconstruct precisely what a character looks like from an exhaustive sensory description, and also it doesn’t matter. It’s boring to read.
Sensory detail should always serve scenic detail. Build the scene, not the character or setting.
Sometimes …