Gail Carson Levine: Describing description
If it takes a boring hour to describe a shirt, how arduous and unnecessary to describe a whole room or a landscape! Your reader needs to feel on solid ground, in a real, even if fantastical, place, but you can achieve that in a few strokes. To get to those few, telling strokes, some writers (like me) have to write a lot and then eliminate.
How much descriptive detail is too much? Gail Carson Levin offers tips:
http://gailcarsonlevine.blogspot.com/2009/11/describing-description.html
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