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Apr 16, 2007 18:17


So you're writing a dance scene between two KH characters. Okay then. It's pretty cute and written decently, with not many details as to confuse people. And you have a lot of the dances written down correctly, too. But here's a tip:

If you're going to write about two characters doing the wu tang tango, don't put in an author's note explaining you'll skip over the little details because you just don't know how it works. Why not leave it out of the entire fic? It'll keep the reader from cringing and going, "Oh dammit, an author's note in the middle of a story!!"

Really. I'm sure plenty of people click the back button once they see the little parenthesis with the "A/N" in between. And the entire "I'll skip over the details" thing kills, much, much more than an in-between-a-sentence author's note in some fics.

How many times do we need to repeat that?

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