Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-26522811-20150720030826/@comment-26475800-20150720040215

Yea, I tend to write longer stories, so I use some fluff here and there. I guess it is because I read novels and anthologies and not so much pastas. So I will add fluff and filler to make a story meet min word count for publishers, not that I have been published elsewhere.

But people like to be able to feel for other people, at least if it gets them to know where they are coming from.

Think about it, if someone wrote "Joey stabbed her in the gut," Or "Joey smiled as he stabbed that cheating whore in the gut," which would you rather read. Even in this short example it builds the character. Joey stabbed her in the gut either way, but the first way makes people go "so what." The second way makes people go "Yea, I may stab that bitch too."