As an editor and a writer, there's something I always come across. A critiquer ... or I ... ask a question and the writer ... or I ... comment with the answer to the question, as though it should have been clear. ** I am SO, so guilty of this. I am. My crit partner, Kaylee, hears it all the time in emails.
Here's the thing: If a critiquer, a reader, an editor had to ask, it's not clear.
It probably is to you. You see the hints (and I'm talking about myself here too). You see the foreshadowing. You understand that the little nugget you dropped in chapter one leads to the answer in chapter ten. But a reader might not. They haven't planned the novel and read it twelve million times. So if they ask, it needs explained in the manuscript.
There. That's my rant ... er, lesson for the day. :)
Amen. I feel like this pussy should get a slow clap. (Modern Family, anyone?)
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