Getting it Right

This post glides right along side the previous post regarding description, and well my lack thereof.

Upon further reflection of that text, just thoughts, not an actual review of what I wrote- I wonder how much is too much.

Let me elaborate.

I’m good at writing erotica, especially of the BDSM variety. I can get the reader holding their breath waiting for the next action (at least that’s what I’ve been told). I make it “real” even if some of the scenes I’ve written are a bit extreme they are not out of the realm of real. Description in these stories comes easy, down to the n^th degree.

So why is it so dang difficult to insert description in this manuscript? I’m contemplating this as I’m actually stumbling over my next scene. It’s a real place one in which many people can visit nearly every day of the year. So how in depth do I get? (rhetorical) Do I dive down into the scenery, describe the hike; or do I skim the scenery and focus on the trek, the emotion, the weather- OR do I do both?

Yes, yes, I do realize this is only my first draft and there will be many revisions. Part of the struggle is how easy it was to write the previous manuscript (the one that’s still unpublished and sitting on my hard drive.

Urban fantasy is a slightly new genre for me to write, not read. I read nearly everything I can get my hands on regardless of how well known the author is.

People get it right, some don’t. I don’t want to be part of the latter.

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