When it comes to writing a book,
you always think, “how much is too much?” thus to decide the amount of how much
is too much you need a dispassionate eye, a sense of what the story demands and
a sense of pace.
The problem here is that you love
your story and the way you have designed your characters. You want the readers
to appreciate the story, the characters and understand it the way you want them
to. However, it is important to guard yourself against the mistake of
explaining the story too much.
Rewrite your work, excluding every
scrap of description. Now how does the story read? If a detail was not
necessary, its absence will not be noticed. If you take out all the description
of the unnecessary section, you would have a better story.
In some genres, the most important
element may be the plot and in others it will be the character that
will interest the readers. Whatever the genre, however, the story is more than
the plot. If your dialog establishes atmosphere and characterization, it will
contribute at the same time to the plot.
Where description is necessary,
avoid a solid, dull block of descriptive prose by integrating description with
action, or by having the description filtered through the eyes of a character. Give the reader the fewest
descriptive words necessary to convey the scene. Better to have one piercing
sentence than three paragraphs of room-by-room description.
The basic rule of writing is to
eliminate everything that does not properly fit the narrative because it will
either further the action or illuminates the character. Two people rushing
through the night to the hospital is action, two people arguing in the car as
they rush to the hospital is character development within an action. The fact
that one of them is six foot tall with blue eyes is neither action nor
illumination.
Apart from the dialogue and story,
you also need to get in touch with the best publishing houses in Chandigarh to
get your book printed. There are plenty of publishing houses available in the
city, so make sure you get in touch with the best one.
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