Where are your weak spots?

[inkdust]

I've known for a while now that I struggle with grounding my scenes with setting details. I'm so wary of drawn-out descriptions of places and people that I run the risk of writing scenes that read more like dialogue scripts. So one element of tackling my second draft is consciously adding in more background details.

Where are your writing weaknesses? What do you do to try to overcome them?

Comments

[sarillia]

My writing tends to be very concise, which you would think would make me enjoy the advice that tells people to write the way I tend to write naturally, but really it just makes me think of all the old books with long, lyrical descriptions that I love and feel sad that people aren't really allowed to do that anymore because it's been declared Bad. I wish more writing advice would focus on the quality of the description rather than the quantity. Of course, readers would have to do that too and most of them think of it in terms of quantity than quality too, unless it's hilariously bad.