This Week in Google Alerts: "Earning/Maintaining a Reader’s Trust" essay

Gwern Branwen · 12 Dec 2011, 23:59 · from 2011-December.txt.gz

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From: gwern0 at gmail.com (Gwern Branwen)
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 18:59:18 -0500
Subject: (urth) =?utf-8?q?This_Week_in_Google_Alerts=3A_=22Earning/Maintai?=
	=?utf-8?q?ning_a_Reader=E2=80=99s_Trust=22_essay?=
Message-ID: <CAMwO0gwaK_uPrpdYSU-QCDPRP0GDbGxOaW-Z4--apV5U8zr0aQ at mail.gmail.com>

- 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.

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