Dissonant Details

The ultimate goal of sharing one's writing is for the reader to "get" what you've written. Seen from that point of view, what you've written is less important than how the reader interprets it. So it's important to try and direct the reader's interpretation if you can.One way to do that is dissonance. As in, if two things in the story don't match up, you can grab the reader's attention for a