How do I know if it’s too much or too little scene description?

Scott Myers
Go Into The Story
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4 min readJul 10, 2022

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Reader question via email from Anonymous:

How do I know it I’m writing too much description in a scene or not enough?

First off, you start with the invisible character who is ‘telling’ your story, what I call Narrative Voice. What is their personality, their descriptive style? They may write more prosaically to match the feel of your story’s genre. On the other hand, they may be of a leaner, tighter take on things. For example, there’s a big difference between this scene description from the…

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