/lit/ - Literature

Why does every aspiring and hipster writer noways write with such verbose descriptive adjectives? As if every paragraph were part of some academic essay. Did no-one actually read The Old Man And The Sea?

How do I stop my writing from being so self-explanatory? It feels like I'm letting the reader know too much but if I omit things I end up feeling like shit. So it seems like I just have a "preachy" nature. Is there a way to make this work? Any writers that sound a bit preachy and self-explanatory but are still pretty good that I could read? I've tried reading Hemingway to become more well-rounded but that failed spectacularly, so my only other choice now is to find someone within that scope who is actually good at it, if such a person exists of course.