Uh, what do you use to make your work better???

Um, DETAILS!!!!!

Yes, my writing friend, DETAILS!!

The Meal Factor

Details are kinda like food. You eat too much, you can't eat any more. You eat too little, you're craving for more.

Too much details will drive your reader insane. Too little details will make your reader let go of your measl-ly meal (coffcoffbookcoffcoff) and move on to a feast (coffcoffanotherbookcoffcoff).

For example, take this:

There was a fruit.

Uh, LAME.

You can put it this way, too, though:

There was a big, huge, red, dark red, juicy, impossible-to-eat-in-one-bite, sourish, round, sweetish, cut-up, tasty, heavy, easy-to-peel, with seeds fruit.

Uh, WHAT WAS THAT????!!!!

That has WAY too many details. WAY WAY WAY to many details about the fruit.

Here is a well written sentence:

There was a juicy, red apple laying on the stone counter.

See? You have just the right amount of details about the fruit and what it's on.

Notice that before, you just knew what the fruit tasted like and looked right.

With a sentence that has less then the details of the second sentence, you have learned what the fruit looks like, tastes like, and where it is!

That's the detail factor.

Be sure to have enough details, not too much, not to little.

Just like a meal!!!!! XD!!!

Details and Details

How to know that you have just the right amount of details?

Simple.

You reread your work.

It may seem perfect, but there are always little things you can add or take out. Think about it.

Once you have the firm feeling that you covered everything with not too little or not too much words, you're all set to go.

Then again, you could take the easy way out and just ask someone to read your sentence....

But, anyway, I can't exactly tell you that you have too much or too little of details, half because it depends on what you are writing about and what your idea is.

Too little? Too Much? UGH! This is Gonna Drive Me Insane!!!

Yeah. It probably will.

But, here's the thing...

Remember the old saying:

"You have to much... that isn't healthy for you (or your book)! you have to little... That ALSO isn't healthy for you (or your book)...!"

xD

--Mysty