It’s every writer’s dream: to write prose that is clear but also beautiful and captivating. Authors like Hemingway have made short, concise sentences into their own style. Others, like Saramago, have sentences that span almost a full page.
Where do you add more description? Where do you keep it crisp? I like this quote from Haruki Murakami’s ‘1Q84’:
‘When you introduce things that most readers have never seen before into a piece of fiction, you have to describe them with as much precision and in as much detail as possible. What you can eliminate from fiction is the description of things that most readers have seen.‘
Now I sit here, finding the right words to show you the world you can’t see… it’s a Venezuela that is no more, the one that existed before chavismo.
My Writing Story 