"Clement makes an interesting point: just because you’ve done a lot of homework does not mean you have to present all of it on the page. What the reader needs to know and what the author needs to know are not the same thing."
Words to live by. As a writer, you can often present the reader with a jawbone, a couple of metatarsals, and a femur of an idea--as long as you have a good sketch of the complete skeleton.
I think it was the Turkey City Lexicon that talked about showing too much of your research under the title "I've suffered for my art (and so will you)".
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james_davis_nicoll) wrote2016-03-29 01:05 pm
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Words to live by. As a writer, you can often present the reader with a jawbone, a couple of metatarsals, and a femur of an idea--as long as you have a good sketch of the complete skeleton.
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