I joined writing groups to be inspired. Instead I’m reading so much ignorant shit that it’s driving me nuts. One of the best books I ever read used details and descriptors to set the location and tone. It’s emersive as far as I’m concerned. It’s not “weak story telling” or “amateur”. You can paint a picture and still tell a story. Saying “the sky was alight with a scarred, silvery moon surrounded by swirling galaxies drawn in across space and time” hardly takes away from the battle scene of the plot. To me, at least, it strengthens it. I want the environment. If I was watching a movie and saw a starry sky back dropping desperate conflict I’d be hooked. I get books aren’t movies, but I feel like adding description to the setting puts you IN the action. And before anyone is like “Well I don’t like that” that’s fine! Preference is preference. But calling that style of story telling weak and amateur just sets me off. It’s not.

That’s it for this rant. See y’all next time.