AGREEEEEEEEE.
You see, if it's not useful to anyone, why on Earth am I writing all this filler?
SO MUCH THIS. I hate 18 years of exposition. #1 I don't have access to your characters' thoughts or any of the memory-backstory that's floating around in their heads. Honey once described writing posts as writing a gift for your partner, and the worst kinds of gifts (for me anyways), are 8 paragraphs that ultimately amount to "so and so is standing in a field doing fuck all". I also HATE bitchy narration, or when arguments just as a preamble. Had so and so voiced those thoughts aloud, I'd have reminded him of.... It's just passive-aggressive. Honestly, I just gloss over all the inner-emotive and monologuing because my character won't know about it.
Thanks to Honey I've really made my writing much more efficient and intentional (when I'm not being lazy). Don't describe the sky to me, the dew on the grass or any of that nonsense. Tell me what's important for the mood you're setting, but be brief about it. Choose your adjectives sparingly (not you Heather, ilu) and leave out all the rest. I don't need a comprehensive and detailed description of where you're standing in the fields. It's the fields, and honestly, the firmness of the soil, an errant bird in the sky, or the feel of the wind probably doesn't matter to me (unless it does for intentional stage-dressing of course).
I used to look at my long posts and feel proud of them, but really, it was just a burden to me to have to dedicate an hour to write ONE THING and my partner to be like "oh look at all of this nothing to reply to".
You see, if it's not useful to anyone, why on Earth am I writing all this filler?
SO MUCH THIS. I hate 18 years of exposition. #1 I don't have access to your characters' thoughts or any of the memory-backstory that's floating around in their heads. Honey once described writing posts as writing a gift for your partner, and the worst kinds of gifts (for me anyways), are 8 paragraphs that ultimately amount to "so and so is standing in a field doing fuck all". I also HATE bitchy narration, or when arguments just as a preamble. Had so and so voiced those thoughts aloud, I'd have reminded him of.... It's just passive-aggressive. Honestly, I just gloss over all the inner-emotive and monologuing because my character won't know about it.
Thanks to Honey I've really made my writing much more efficient and intentional (when I'm not being lazy). Don't describe the sky to me, the dew on the grass or any of that nonsense. Tell me what's important for the mood you're setting, but be brief about it. Choose your adjectives sparingly (not you Heather, ilu) and leave out all the rest. I don't need a comprehensive and detailed description of where you're standing in the fields. It's the fields, and honestly, the firmness of the soil, an errant bird in the sky, or the feel of the wind probably doesn't matter to me (unless it does for intentional stage-dressing of course).
I used to look at my long posts and feel proud of them, but really, it was just a burden to me to have to dedicate an hour to write ONE THING and my partner to be like "oh look at all of this nothing to reply to".
