“The simple circumstantial narrative (did such a narrative exist) of the ruin of a single town, of the misfortunes of a single family, might exhibit an interesting and instructive picture of human manners; but the tedious repetition of vague and declamatory complaints would fatigue the attention of the most patient reader.” HumansMightSimpleInterestingAttentionHistoryReaderTownsPatientRuinsMannersNarrativeMisfortunesVagueComplaintsRepetitionFatigueExhibitsTediousRoman Empire Book:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
“You'll lose your reader if you are vague, not clear, and not present. We love details, personal connections, stories.” IfsStoriesLosesClearReaderConnectionsDetailsVaguePersonal Connection Book:Wild Mind: Living the Writer’s Life Source: Wild Mind: Living the Writer’s Life
“That's a way to increase the realism to the reader, if you want to get technical - you leave it [character] vague and you let the reader fill in the blanks with their imagination.” IfsWayWantCharacterImaginationReaderIncreaseRealismVague Author:Nicholas Sparks
“An initial impulse of mine was to portray the way in which a city is impacted by war. But this is vague, no? After all, how do you actually have an entire city - or country, for that matter - be a character a reader can follow? One way is by making it smaller and personalizing it, by writing specifically about the citizens and the way they contend with the reality, even minutiae, especially minutiae, of their lives.” WayWritingWarCountryMatterCharacterRealityCitiesMinesReaderCitizensOne WayImpulseVagueInitialsMinutiae Author:Said Sayrafiezadeh
“I felt it's vague enough for the reader to pull their own story and their wisdom out of the poem, but for me, it's actually very painfully transparent what I've written. Sometimes very literal, which is scary.” SometimesEnoughStoriesFeltWrittenReaderScaryVagueTransparentLiteral Author:Masiela Lusha