
Ex Urbe Ad Astra Bonus Ep. 3, Part 1: The Author-Reader Contract
Ex Urbe Ad Astra
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What's the Difference Between a Good and a Bad Book?
When it feels like a got then tat is satisfying. The reader wants an interesting experience. If the readers going into something that's about violence, they want to think about violence. It can depend partly on how long a relationship you've developed with the reader. How many of the readers will have it not work. But if it were her third one, yes, right? Hen, you're going to have less sense of the solidity of the theme andLess sense of the structure of this and trust her less. Then you could see there being a slice of the audience for which the ending of murder on the orient express wouldn't work.
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