Readers are a rare thing. Most people don't like to read. They'd rather do just about anything else. In our culture of easy entertainment and instant gratification, reading is akin to homework in most people's minds.
[Yet] you can give the human touch to your writing by creating a facade. When the words become a curtain, and there's a personality behind that curtain, your writing is suddenly electrified as if it's a live performance.
Your reader senses the intelligence behind the curtain and the writing comes alive in a way that it can't when you write "on the nose" (the term for writing exactly what you think).
-Scott Dikkers, How To Write Funny
What Writing Is.
Telepathy, of course.
All the arts depend upon telepathy to some degree, but I believe writing offers the purest distillation.
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