Detail is not ornamentation you apply to action and dialogue the way you add seasoning to food. It has a narrative function as well. If you tell the reader the rock upon which a character is sitting is “warm,” you are suggesting a process, an experience. The story is not about the sun warming the rock, neither about a person experiencing that warmness in her butt, but I believe we go over those aspects, deep in our imaginations, while reading that sentence. Our awareness might be directed to the dialogue, the action, the character’s feelings and thoughts, but that detail about the temperature of the rock is turning subtle storytelling gears below the surface, strongly contributing to the whole reading experience.
Daniel Galera, Writing just enough detail.
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