[italics|The trick for the author is to remember to use the proper tense and to describe the events as they unfold rather than glossing over important details. ]

For me this is the hardest part. I hate editing my own work and I usually post projects and blog posts and stories without even reading them after I have completed them. I know I sometimes make this mistake, and something I need to work on as well as reading my work before posting it.

I do see a lot of authors "glossing" over a lot of the important details. In some erotic works, suddenly the man cums, pulls out and tosses out a condom. How the heck did the condom get there!!! There are many examples I could give here, but that one is always my favourite.

Another glossing over that I find out than just actions, is feelings. I find when a man writes from a woman's point of view, they are WAY too vague in the emotional aspects of a woman's mind that good idea bad idea that weighs into our thinking. OR they write it too poetishy. Using language that takes away from the actual story.

[italics|Remember that your audience cannot see, smell, hear or taste what your character is seeing, smelling, hearing or tasting. ]

Exactly!!!

I love and adore attention to details. So that is how I write. I love reading that a dish of food was so delicious that a character closed their eyes in bliss and sighed as they swallowed rather than the "food was good/delicious". less