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In kateelliott's post today about creating vibrant characters, she says this:
We are social animals. Let readers be social in their reading experience. Because one of the relationships you are creating when you write is the relationship between the reader and your story.
It's that "let readers be social in their reading experience" that got my head reverberating. Not sure how to translate that out, because my logical process resembles a plate of spaghetti, but wow. A new way to look at the reader-writer contract.
We are social animals. Let readers be social in their reading experience. Because one of the relationships you are creating when you write is the relationship between the reader and your story.
It's that "let readers be social in their reading experience" that got my head reverberating. Not sure how to translate that out, because my logical process resembles a plate of spaghetti, but wow. A new way to look at the reader-writer contract.