Description or Dialogue? - Comments

@ BILINSKI
Yeah, I try to do that shit as little as possible. Like, one of my chaptered stories I actually spent a whole paragraph describing one of the boys and it was like seriously painful to write but because it was in his love interest's perspective and he's like staring at bro, I felt like it was necessary to add but otherwise, I NEVER describe shit like that. Like, I might mention something in passing ("he drummed his long, knobby fingers on the desk" <- SEE THERE'S A ACTION!!!) but I never go out of my way to explain things (His fingers were long and knobby and his wrists were boney and blah blah blah blahhh" <- not DOING jack shit, just being. ) I just find it to be a waste of time and usually distracts from the point at hand. That is, except int those rare scenarios like I mentioned where bro is staring at something and practically analyzing it under a microscope.

@ addesin

addesin:

I do consider narration of action to be different from "description," though. So maybe that makes my judgement a little different than other peoples...

SAAAME. It's the stuff like "the trees were like a hot summers day - dead" kind of stuff that makes me go . But describing what they're doing is my cup of joe.

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Personally, I like prose. A lot of reflection and stuff, and a good bit of dialogue and action, then some physical description sprinkled in sparingly. That's just my style though, and generally what I enjoy reading.

edit: I do consider narration of action to be different from "description," though. So maybe that makes my judgement a little different than other peoples...

A well-written story has good balance between description and dialogue.

you honestly have to balance both. sometimes, all you need is dialogue; maybe to keep the mood light. but other times, maybe emotional or thoughtful moments, you might need description to get what you're really trying to say. it honestly depends on what you're describing.... i don't know if this helped, sorry

I prefer when both dialogue and descriptions are balanced. But I'm leaning towards dialogue. Sometimes, too much descriptions just confuses me. Especially if they use big words and complicated metaphors that I just can't understand.

I prefer dialogue. I'm not good with descriptions, I suck at describing things, really. So dialogue is so much easier to write for me. And then there comes the comments saying I need to add more description, blah.

For some reason, I've always liked reading, and writing, description more than dialogue. With description, I don't really have to think about how the character would say or not say; I just have to focus on the surrounding areas. I don't know, description, to me, is more fun to both read and write.