Instead of saying, "She was hungry for blood." You instead depict how "A dark scarlet trail trickled down her glistening skin. A sinister grin manifested beneath her wild eyes for her appetite still yet unquenched."
Me too. I don't typically read past what someone says, intentions or otherwise. If we're conversing, we're conversing. If someone's mad or done, I'd hope they'd say so, and we can then close it out
I recently read Peter F. Hamilton's Night's dawn trilogy. The length of the extremely long books could have been cut in half by just dumping the extraneous detail descriptions of things that didn't add to the story.
Show dont tell shouldnt mean excessive description. It should mean focusing on what's important plot and story wise. If it doesnt serve a purpose, why include it?
Hamilton wrote the entire formation of a solar system, then the detailed astrophysical cycle, then the evolution from cells to spacefaring aliens, that he then killed off offscreen and never used again as a living race.
