Tell Again Tuesday Reader vs Character

Tell Again Tuesday
A blog series where we shamelessly share posts from others that we have enjoyed.

Reader vs Character

Okay, not in a fight club, battle to the death with Original Star Trek fight music blaring in the background type of way–but still, a fight of sorts.

Writers need to always keep in mind what the reader probably knows from the real world. This can be a problem of focus: don’t step by step me on how to start a car unless there is something new or unique about it, or the car is going to blow up, fly, or vanish. Most people know how cars work. When an author focuses on a mundane, everyday thing, I’m waiting for something NON-mundane to happen. When it doesn’t, I become peeved. Peeved readers bad.

Another problem with reader knowledge is . . .

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