Saturday, 25 June 2011

TIp #132: Filling in the blanks

If your readers don't get the full details, they'll just full in the blanks with what's relevant to them. And if those details aren't what you had in mind, you can run into trouble with how a reader sees and understands your story.
http://blog.janicehardy.com/2009/07/in-proper-context.html?spref=tw

This is, of course, the dark side of being able to conjure up an image by saying "a terraced house" when you want to describe something relatively unimportant and common.

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