tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7119990365479009764.post6062252907750322641..comments2024-03-14T18:09:09.667-05:00Comments on Do Some Damage: Writing Is SubjectiveUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7119990365479009764.post-80243114213158729772019-01-31T12:28:33.387-05:002019-01-31T12:28:33.387-05:00Respecting your readers' intelligence is a big...Respecting your readers' intelligence is a big one. So much of popular fiction is a retelling of what went on a couple chapters back. I think that's a similar impulse in television story-telling, when you come back from a commercial and they recap what just went on. Commercial breaks can be as long as three minutes, so the morons might have forgotten. Best remind them, because we want to reach most people here, and we are aware that most people are idiots.<br />"Allow their intelligence to do the rest" is a rule I can get behind.stevenoreply@blogger.com