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from: Michael Nellis
date: 2002-10-26 10:35:02
subject: Re: [writing2] niftiness:)

Hi, Mike.

--- BardMock{at}aol.com wrote:

> Apparently, I'm assuming my readers are more savvy than they
> actually are

That's what I do to avoid dumbing down.  When I get to a passage I'm
not sure how to write I always firmly tell myself, "always assume the
reader is a little bit smarter than you are."

=====
Fear of corrupting the mind of the younger generation is 
the loftiest of cowardice. --Holbrook Jackson

>From the Lair of Fang-Face DreamWeaver
and The Encyclopedia Michael Nellis
http://www.angelfire.com/scifi/dreamweaver/index.html

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