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Having been a terribly terrible excuse for a guild member for a terrible length of time, I shall restrict myself to option C–what I struggle with when doing settings. I feel like I err on the side of not enough detail, afraid to somehow cross the line from setting the scene to info-dumping or boring the reader. Or, my details are too generic–blankets there, a worktable by the window (presumably), a stone windowsill, and a curtain sectioning off one part of the room. My settings don’t have character, I guess is what I’m aiming at here, and I feel like even when the settings are fairly common ones, they should have something distinctive in them. And mine don’t, really, because I’m too worried that I’m giving too much information and straying from action/dialogue/things that keep the reader hooked in the story.