Every reader is my co-author

This morning I caught author Katherine Paterson on the Bob Edwards Show.  She lived in Japan and talked about the use of white space by Japanese artists.  The artist intends the viewer to fill in the space with their own imagination.

Patterson told Bob that she incorporates this into her writing and said something that really resonated with me…

"Every reader is my co-author."

I've come to appreciate this because a funny thing happens when you write a book…someone reads it (hopefully). And when t...