On Writing by Stephen King
The Book Pile
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Stephen King's Lesson 3 - Description
Stephen King's advice is whether you're describing a small room or a massive landscape, two to three details at the most is all you need. Our minds just want to fill in the space. Even though in the book, they may have never even been described, your brain just automatically wants to put an image there. We romanticized the mentally troubled artist much more than the mentally troubled doctor. Our mentally troubled doctors create Frankenstein's.
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