Unlock the Secret of the Rose: Transform Your Writing with Powerful Detail as Narrative
These are the kind of details that can lure us into a story.
Here’s the thing — we don’t need many. Too much detail can distract your reader and slow the pace of the action.
An example from Dinty W. Moore. Compare this scene:
My mother walked quickly into the room and she sure seemed angry about something. She didn’t normally enter my bedroom when the door was closed. It was morning, and I figured it had to do with my sneaking in so late the night before and her wanting to know where I had been. She stood really close to me with a furious look on her face and made her suspicions of me entirely clear. She was holding a towel from the kitchen.
