Information Asymmetry and the Writer-Reader Dyad · 8:37pm March 27th
I’ve been thinking a lot about the role that information asymmetry plays in the formation of different and disagreeable perspectives, and I’ve also been thinking a lot about exposition in fiction writing, and I’ve finally decided why they’re related. Writing itself is a challenge of perspectives—not the perspectives of characters, although yes, that, but even more, a challenge of perspectives consisting of a dyad of writer and reader that intrinsically faces a high degree of information