User blog comment:Gideoncrawle/Writer's Workshop/@comment-1324135-20100418045717

Nice, Gideon! I'll just go ahead and add my two cents in, now....

One of the things I find extremely hard to do when writing is description, which is the thing I usually focus the most on when I'm cranking out LAL chapters. To tell the truth, it's often very, very frustrating when I'm trying to find a good medium between too much description and too little description. Writing that's too flowery can bore a reader to death, but writing that's too straightforward does exact the same thing.

For "too flowery" writing, go here:

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PurpleProse

For "too straightforward" writing, go here:

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BeigeProse

Finding a balance between those two is key, at least to me. Do not overdescribe, do not underdescribe. Both Beige Prose and Purple Prose can kill a story. Beige Prose sounds bland. Purple Prose can sound amateur. Of course, like I said before, this is ridiculously hard and probably takes years to get right. Above all else, my main goal in writing is to develop a style that comes naturally and that has that sort of balance. But that's just me. xD

As for dialogue, I'll admit that I don't focus much on that, and I don't really have any tips to give. Sorry. ^-^;;;;;