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A bit of extra description can definitely be fun, and certainly draw the line where you’re still having fun writing! Now, if you need to delve into a two chapter description on the manufacturing of that top button securing that blouse, I’d likely skip reading that bit, unless it was super-important (like smithed in the mines of Moria and has a minature family tree spanning back a thousand generations or something like that, power to smite your enemies, or maybe even cursed to fail in front of your true love). One trick I read about years ago, and still use today, is to get very specific to one detail of an item, and let it carry the reader’s imagination. Such as the ornate carving on the switch to the green lamp sitting on the sofa’s end-table, the one the flying black hockey puck smashed while the boys were using a baseball bat. A blood soaked athletic sock left footprints in the shag carpet as the culprits tried to evade their mother’s wrath. Of course, other times, a bit of repetition is useful too. ie. Describing Jarred’s bedroom’s walls as the dirt brown and grass green of the Albuquerque Outlaws, with matching sheets lining his twin sized bed, emphasizing that he’s a fan of that team.

On the FOURTH day of Christmas, a true love ought to give: FOUR scammers getting baited and losing their gift cards THREE busted spammers’ modems TWO broken spammer’s modems1 ONE spammer’s head in a pear tree 1Credit to @BronxWench for the second line