> > 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."
>
> I think that's a good policy.  If readers whom you know to be
> smarter than you are don't get it, then you know you miscalibrated
> or just wrote it badly, but I think that's a much better baseline
> than, "Readers aren't as smart as me."

What I do is say, "Um, if I don't get it, and I wrote it ... then who
will?"  There are passages, however, that I don't expect to be able to
"get" myself.... but I try to keep those to a minimum. (These are the
s-o-c's.)

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