Same here as with others, in that stage myself, good to know I'm not alone.
Seems to me that sometimes as writers, we do tend to forget that the readers don't know everything we know. Because we know all the secrets histories and what this touch or glance, or this symbol all mean, we forget to spell it out a little more clearly for the reader, so they at least have a shot of guessing what's going on.
Working with a scene right now where what the character is talking about cannot and should not be said aloud, and I thought I'd done well-enough at hinting that the reader could at least guess. Instead, the two pre-edits readers are both very confused, one of them has no clue what's going on, and the other talked themselves out of it because they felt too much of what I'd done earlier in the story indicated something different. So, it's back to the drawing board for me.
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Date: 2009-07-08 01:56 pm (UTC)Seems to me that sometimes as writers, we do tend to forget that the readers don't know everything we know. Because we know all the secrets histories and what this touch or glance, or this symbol all mean, we forget to spell it out a little more clearly for the reader, so they at least have a shot of guessing what's going on.
Working with a scene right now where what the character is talking about cannot and should not be said aloud, and I thought I'd done well-enough at hinting that the reader could at least guess. Instead, the two pre-edits readers are both very confused, one of them has no clue what's going on, and the other talked themselves out of it because they felt too much of what I'd done earlier in the story indicated something different. So, it's back to the drawing board for me.