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Originally Posted by Undead_Lives
I really disagree. Many poems are completely description (some short stories as well) and a hidden meaning and plot is put underneath the description. It can be extremely effective.
IE: Instead of adding description to a plot, you add a plot to a description.
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I think you’re miss understanding it.
If you spend more work on the details and less on the actually story it will be completely boring.
As in example: If you talk about every little detail of how the grass is wet, and little dew drops were falling and a grasshopper jumped and there’s this funny looking bird, and the suns rising and of look there’s a stream, there’s a nice looking rock, oh there’s a little fish, cool look the stream is Turing into a pond, there’s a frog, the frog has 3 bumps the bumps are green with dots, now the frog jumped. Oh wait, this is a story, heh. If you add SO many details that there’s no other story left.
How ever, if you shorten it to the basic details, it will help the reader imagine he was in the story, watching the sun rise, ECT, with being so many details it’s boring. So if we say there was dew on the grass and the sun was rising as I jumped over the stream to get to the pond, its not so boring but tells about how it’s like.
EDIT: And sometimes no detail is OK, for awhile, then you switch to suddenly lots of detail, the none detailed part will be confusing, and then it will all fit into place, lets say, the next chapter when more detail is added. And at some points TO much details OK too, then switch suddenly to action and not very much detail, it will surprise them and maybe make the action more exiting. Of course were all untitled to out own opinion, this is just mine.
