Cutting to the Bone - #Editing

How do you write your fiction? I
currently write detailed, building tone and atmosphere in pastel layers to
create a vibrant depth in which to seed information and incidents that echo
other parts of the story as it builds to a series of harvest points.  





This
doesn’t happen over a single page, or even a couple; it needs space. But what
if there is only the single page? For an anthology