Jan
17th
2015
Scenery · 1:14am Jan 17th, 2015
Reading back over my chapters, I notice I'm not big on scenery. Besides extremely basic layouts, I tend to go right into the words and actions. The protagonists could be having their conflicts in a perfectly white space without much being lost most of the time. I don't engage the senses besides obvious actions. No dripping water or soft echoing steps, odd smells, or anything like that.
Is this a bad habit? Does it decrease your enjoyment of the story?
If you give Equestria's New Nightmare (in my profile, must enable mature) a look, you'll note that I'm pretty much the same way most of the time. Bare bones to set the scene as required, only changed up when the details become important.
For example, compare the nightmares of Sweetie Belle and Silver Spoon, then the later scene in Silver Spoon's bedroom. One is sparse on detail because we all know what a doctor's office looks like. The other two have enough detail where you can get a decent image of what's going on and who this person is without me bogging the story down by detailing every smudge and speck of dust.
Well, I don't think they bog the story down. I'm a little lacking in feedback.
I think when it comes to detailing environments it should be when the characters are passing through towns, forests and anywhere new, also for when the party was getting a ride back by Snow Scales I think his name was, you could have taken a little time for Twilight to see some of the scenery during the flight abit. (just my opinion) but that's just a minor nitpick.
I think you do well enough. I can imagine the scenes without the pungent scent of mildew emanating from every wet dungeon wall.
2727684 That's a good catch, a basic description of what land they passed by would not have been inappropriate.
2728660 Heh, I just find myself wondering, 'Can anyone tell me what color the maze is?'