Tell Again Tuesday Draw Reader into Scene

Tell Again Tuesday
A blog series where we shamelessly share posts from others that we have enjoyed.

 

 

Are You Using Texture in Your Writing?
Posted on February 8, 2017 by Trish Jackson, Author

Texture is a method of including the influence of the environment in descriptive writing, using the five senses to draw readers into the scene and help them feel a connection to the setting.

Every time your character is in a different location, you need to describe the scene, but lengthy descriptions can distract the reader, and slow the pace of the writing. Most writers learn early on that the ‘information dump’—long passages of explanations often given by a third person—is the worst method of imparting data to the reader, and that background information is best filtered in through dialogue and short paragraphs.

On the other hand, . . .

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