Board Thread:Administration/@comment-4832646-20140401205802/@comment-4849011-20140407132024

Just because someone expresses a view doesn't mean they're forcing an opinion into people's throats.

In any case, I've decided to start my own thread or blog about why overdescription in stories is a bad thing. I hope to have it up tomorrow (my head's bothering me already today), but here are two basic points.

1. Lengthy description should only be for what's really important in the story. If everything has an elaborate description, then nothing will stand out. Also, if you go into a lengthy description of something, the reader will think, "Okay, there must be something really important about this if so much emphasis is being placed on this!" When it turns out it wasn't important at all, the reader will feel let down.

2. If someone's descriptions are really bad, then having lots of them only hurts the story. If you write something like, "His footsteps sounded like grubs popping in the toaster oven!" then I'm just going to find another story, okay?

Well, I'm off to fix something in my toaster oven! (Note: I apologize if I accidentally posted this twice)