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Yes. In fact, it's inevitable that you'll have to leave some details up to your reader's imagination; describing every little detail takes up a lot of space on the page and you can only fit so many...
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#3: Attribution notice added
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System
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2019-12-08T12:58:46Z (almost 5 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision
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Anna A. Fitzgerald
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2019-12-08T12:58:46Z (almost 5 years ago)
Yes. In fact, it's inevitable that you'll have to leave some details up to your reader's imagination; describing every little detail takes up a lot of space on the page and you can only fit so many pages in a book. Your job is to provide the reader with the most pertinent visuals so they can form the rest of the picture in their mind's eye. That said, if you're comparing X to Y and I have no idea what Y looks like, I'm going to have a difficult time completing the picture. Consider: > Her beautiful nose looks just like GAIJAMU flowers. I don't know of any nose-shaped flowers so now I'm imagining a lady with a sunflower for a nose. Unless that's the effect you were going for, you either need to describe what qualities a gaijamu flower and the woman's nose have in common, or find a better description.
#1: Imported from external source
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System
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2019-09-19T15:20:45Z (about 5 years ago)
Original score: 14