Scribbled Fiction

Well well well, I'm back again! Thought you'd gotten rid of me, hadn't you? (fool) My dear dear sister Rachel  tagged me to do this post, and she knew I was looking for a reason to scream about all the niche fandoms I'm in, so I'll take it! Let's talk fandoms. The Rules -Include the graphic somewhere in your post -Answer the questions -And tag two fellow fan people to answer them too! The Questions 1. What's the first fandom you remember becoming a part of? Narnia!! Narnia has been a huge obsession of mine since I was super small, I distinctly remember every Narnia movie and book in existence, my favorite may be the Last Battle(I know, sorry)... Narnia is unbeatable good, what more can I say? seratonin: boosted 2. What's the newest fandom you've come to enjoy? I'm taking this as being the most recent fandom I've come to enjoy in my life, not the newest thing to come out, because I'm not super sure how to interpret this. One of the fandoms...

Something I'm learning from this current draft of Robbing Centaurs and Other Bad Ideas is that I'm really bad at descriptions. I underdescribe, I overdescribe, I put in confusing visuals, my sentences are awkward... I'm just really bad at descriptions. And now that I think about it, descriptions are something that have always been really frustrating for me to try to write. I can picture all these cool places and ideas, but I have no idea how to make the reader see and feel them the way I do. It's probably one of the most frustrating parts of writing for me. Therefore, after seeing all the notes from my sweet editor on descriptions that could be improved, I did a hearty bit of googling on how to write descriptions. This is what I found.  Give the description a flow. Your MC spots another character in the room. What do they notice first, and why? What do they notice after that? Don't just say 'their hair was black and their eyes were blue', that doesn't wo...