Balancing descriptive details with a compelling narrative can be tricky. Use this Conflict Sandwich recipe to help you make a pièce de résistance.

There is a fine balance between giving enough descriptive details to allow the reader to be visually grounded in a scene and the dreaded info-dump—piles of description that are completely unrelated to plot or action. In this post, I talk about the most engaging ways to include description in your writing and suck your readers into your world with the force of a hurricane that they are begging not to release them.