: Re: Are more or less details better for details that do not play a role in the story but describe where part of the story takes place? I'm testreading a novel for somebody I know. It's an adventure

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Too little of detail makes it fairly vague and hard for the reader to really create an imaginative image of the scene. Too many overwhelms and overloads the reader blocking the flow of reading. There is a fine balance between the two. Details for huts are really not that important unless it plays a factor in the story.

If the huts are made of straw and dried branches, and a fire comes and burns down the village, maybe the material might want to be known. Some others might imagine the huts to be made out of stone which won't burn down and cause confusion if the text reads different than the imagination.

If it doesn't matter what they look like, or what they are made out of, most people have a general idea of what a hut looks like, and as long as they know it is a hut, that really is all that matters.

Not everything needs detail and you don't want to end up writing 4 pages of description for everything. People generally do not like to see that in writing these days and I know I will skip whole pages if not chapters if it starts out with pages of description.

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