Unlock the Secret of the Rose: Transform Your Writing with Powerful Detail as Narrative

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.

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