# This Week in Google Alerts: "Earning/Maintaining a Reader’s Trust" essay *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 12 Dec 2011* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Gwern Branwen *12 Dec 2011, 23:59* - http://elflands2ndcousin.com/2011/11/29/earningmaintaining-a-readers-trust-starting-a-story-with-cultural-touchstones-narrative-voice-and-precision-part-1-of-3/ - http://elflands2ndcousin.com/2011/12/03/earningmaintaining-a-readers-trust-world-building-story-structure-consequential-plotting-part-2-of-3/ - http://elflands2ndcousin.com/2011/12/06/earningmaintaining-a-readers-trust-characternarrator-consistency-and-reliability-part-3-of-3/ Wolfe comes into play in part 3. Seems worth reading. ``` gwern http://www.gwern.net ``` ---