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Originally Posted by crich70
True, and there is also James Michener who wrote a good many books with a lot of detail included. Just goes to prove that any rule of writing can be bent if the writer is skillful enough I guess.  |
Yes, I should have put in a proviso something along the lines of "unnecesssary/extraneous" detail. Oh, and "boring" !
There you go - a skillful writer can give detail, but in a way that gets you interested, and supports the story, and a writer like Michener can sustain it over a long haul. Edward Rutherford (Srum, Stonehenge London etc..) is another I admire for the same reason, and there's bags of detail in his work - but it doesn't seem like it.
I read almost all the Michener canon a while ago, and I think he gave me my liking for something you can really get immersed in - but long tomes are immeasurably harder to pull off.
