But what does it look like? (A bit about description)

Description is one of those love-it-or-hate-it things. Some readers want more, more, more; they want to see every button and bead on the dress, every scratch on the woodwork. Other people roll their eyes and complain about slowing down the story when they run across long passages of descriptive infodump. Still others want to have their cake and eat it, too–they want to know what everything looks like, but they don't want to stop and wade through two pages of scene-setting every time the characte