Dear Reader (Particularly the most morally upstanding sex robots among you),
I learned an important lesson about writing when I was a TV producer: The audience never knows what you don’t show them.
What I mean by this is that if you cut something -- an interview, a graphic, a fantastic montage of Godzilla wearing a sun dress with Mel Tormé on his shoulder while fighting all of the denizens of Monster Island -- the viewer (or reader) doesn’t know about it. The reason this is important is that the creator of any piece of work can never experience that work the same way the consumer can. When I read a long, edited essay or book I’ve written, I often can’t help but focus on the stuff that’s not there. I mourn all the “darlings” that had to be killed. But the audience can’t miss what it doesn’t know ever existed.
Anyway, I bring this up for ...
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Jonah Goldberg
Dear Reader (Particularly the most morally upstanding sex robots among you),
I learned an important lesson about writing when I was a TV producer: The audience never knows what you don’t show them.
What I mean by this is that if you cut something -- an interview, a graphic, a fantastic montage of Godzilla wearing a sun dress with Mel Tormé on his shoulder while fighting all of the denizens of Monster Island -- the viewer (or reader) doesn’t know about it. The reason this is important is that the creator of any piece of work can never experience that work the same way the consumer can. When I read a long, edited essay or book I’ve written, I often can’t help but focus on the stuff that’s not there. I mourn all the “darlings” that had to be killed. But the audience can’t miss what it doesn’t know ever existed.
Anyway, I bring this up for ...
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