5 Steps to Avoid Overwriting — Guest: Christina Delay

Back when we were newbie writers, we might have assumed our goal would be to perfectly replicate our ideas in our readers’ brains. We might have thought readers should picture our settings and characters exactly as we do, hear precisely the same tones of voices, and grasp every nuance of our characters’ emotions that we imagined.

However, that assumption of thinking every detail is equally important to understanding and enjoying our story leads many writers down the path of overwriting. And...