Robert Teague: [...] Describing what's around the characters helps as well, even if you think the readers are already familiar with it. Example: As Flora walked across the quad, she noticed how the walls of Alfea reflected the sunlight and made things seem brighter. Pausing by the Wishing Well, she looked down into the depths, and could smell the cool, pure water. [...]
Zadien: I'll expand on Robert's post and point out that you must always remember to use your senses when writing. It helps people merge themselves into the story if they know exactly what the protagonist is seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling and touching. If you remember include your senses, your descriptions should be pretty impressive to the reader. However, don't just say, she heard this, he saw that, she smelt this, he dealt that. That's just boring. Make it part of the story and part of the character. Flora is very much going to be in tune with nature while Stella is going to notice brightly coloured things and if there's a sale mentioned, she'll be the first one to pick it up and Musa's all about sound, so remember that.
Stills and Photographs: But there is such a thing as waaay too much description. It's a fine line, but Scenery Porn and lots of long, expanded sensory details, can really detract from the story by stopping it in its tracks. Description is better spread throughout than clumped together.
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