When you’re creating a fictional world, it can be tough to decide how much time you should spend describing the world versus how much time you should spend describing your characters. Science fiction and fantasy author William F. Wu believes the personal details of characters best help the story come alive. Knowing what someone looks like and acts like can make the character more real. Being in that character’s viewpoint and seeing how he or she views the world is an effective way of building your world while avoiding an overload of information and description. To achieve this balance, Wu suggests not only reading the work of successful authors, but studying the work and breaking it down to see why it was so successful.
:Is all of my research work the outline? Good advice. I wrote the resources down in my notebook.
Hello, you want to weave all of these details into the story where appropriate, rather than doing information dumps throughout. It might help to create a story outline and character sketches so that you can determine the best places in your story to relay the details. You can also put in placeholder text in your manuscript if you want to get straight to the writing and revisit the details later. Something like, "details on the setting here". Here are some ALC resources you might find helpful:
https://www.authorlearningcenter.com/writing/fiction/w/character-development/6461/creating-captivating-characters-in-fiction
https://www.authorlearningcenter.com/writing/i-have-an-idea/w/outlining-your-story/7295/how-to-outline-a-book-in-7-easy-steps
https://www.authorlearningcenter.com/b/ask-keith/posts/what-is-save-the-cat-and-how-can-i-use-it-to-outline-my-story
:Do I write character description starting off with the Main Character, Setting, Dialogue, Plot separately or do I weave them together into the story?