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A massive one for me is pacing. If it feels like someone is telling me the story as it happens, I can pull myself right into the world, but if they spend two pages describing a room they just entered, I’ve already forgotten why they entered the room.
That's fair ... I guess the trick is to do relevant descriptions before stuff happens, or to keep it very brief
Sometimes I really like fleshed out descriptions, and sometimes they're needed for the plot to make sense :-)
I love fantasy and scifi authors who get heavy into their world building, but yeah, sometimes when I find myself rereading a page for the third time because it’s a little too descriptive… Let my imagination do the work.
What I can abide is something like Tolkien’s appendices. There’s no narrative break, he’s free to pour out all his imagination in its glory, then I can take that and sharpen my imagination to see what he saw.