writing tip #725:

gr8writingtips:

assume your readers are clever enough to work things out without being explicitly told. assume they’re smart enough to know the names of unnamed characters, to imagine where the characters are when no location is specified, to write their own version of events down in the blank pages you leave when you’re stuck. if they’re smart enough to read, they’re smart enough to write the story themselves, and often it’s much easier to just let them

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