“Most of a description goes unsaid rather than said; most everything is tossed into the pile of the unvarying, the uninteresting, the unremarkable.”
Every writing workshop tells you to cut description and get to the action. This piece argues the opposite: description isn’t decoration, it’s the writer deciding what counts as real. What gets described exists. What doesn’t gets erased. That’s not a style choice. That’s an argument about whose life is worth noticing.