The Importance of Airing Sensory Information

The temptation to describe everything can sometimes lead to overwriting. If you do it in a scene of high emotional intensity such as torture or sex, you will frequently gross out the reader. In American Gods by Muaymed that book almost is defined for me by one scene where the God of the Internet eats McDonald's food and burns his fingers on a hot apple pie. It also served to humanize that character and that cast of deities in a very important way.