How to Write Descriptively

     When writing a book the balance of writing description and dialogue is always a dilemma, especially for the newbie writer.  This is something that every writer on some level needs to address.  The reason is that readers can be very particular in how they view your story due to description and dialogue.  Personally, I don't particularly like books with too much description, and yet I know someone who loves lots of description in their book.  Now for me, I love dialogue and I have to admit that my books weigh heavily on this instead of description.  Yes, I have descriptions in my books but sparingly.  I guess it's what you like to read is how you will write your book.  If I loved description I would probably write a lot of it in my stories, but like I said, I don't.  For me, I think the biggest reason I don't like a book with a lot of description is that I feel like the story has a tendency of dragging, and often times I lose track of the story at hand.

     Anyway, here is a video below that explains how you can bring your description to life in your story and hopefully enhance what you are writing.  (I personally, thought the video was quite good and may attempt to add more description in the historical, romance novel I am currently writing.).

     So you might be wondering whether to have a lot of description or a lot of dialogue.  This is something you will have to decide for yourself if you are self-publishing.  If you are traditionally publishing, believe me, the literary agent will tell you before they'd even consider representing your work on what is needed in your story, or what you need to get rid of as well. 

     In my next blog entry, I am going to discuss how much it cost to self-publish a book.

     So stay tuned!