One of the major problems I am having is with descriptions. Mainly, how much is too much? Especially because in the genre I am looking to write, speculative fiction, books can be very descriptive. I think I don't have to go beyond LOTR to quote an example. But I cannot write that descriptively. If I do, I myself will lose the thread of the story, let alone the reader.
The second problem is, if I am not describing too much, am I describing too little? What if whatever I am writing makes no sense, because I have not set the place correctly or well enough.
I dont think there is a solution to this problem. I can only work out one way. Write the whole thing, all chapters, front to end, without going through too much rework. Once that is done, go through the entire book chapter by chapter. If I feel that somewhere description is less or more, then decorate or trim it accordingly. Once that is done, and I have corrected all the grammatical errors that I can find, then I can go ahead and submit it for reviews in the writers workshop I am a part of. With the multiple view points I get, I hope that this issue will be resolved suitably.
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