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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
cstross@wandering.shop ("Charlie Stross") wrote:
#WritersCoffeeClub Feb 4
How much detail do you use to describe your settings?The reader's imagination is very good at filling in gaps in the picture, you just need to nudge it in the right direction. As I write SF/F, a lot of this amounts to dropping alienating details: a family gathers around the dinner table to eat, their father picks up the carving knife then begins to carve up a small velociraptor. You don't need to describe the table or the knife! "Here, have a drumstick."