Earning a Reader's Trust

(Remix)



When we read something, anything, we want to know that we can trust the author. If we trust that the author knows what they're doing, we'll give them more grace when they make "mistakes" like using unnecessary adverbs or telling when they should be showing. We trust that eventually they'll explain whatever we don't understand.



If we don't trust the author, those mistakes will stick out like they were written in sparkly red ink. If we don't understand something right away, r...