: Re: Subtle writing and speed readers I want to write a dystopia and find it hard to convey that things aren't at all right. I had planned to convey this in subtle reading clues, but I am worried

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Any time you drop a subtle hint, most readers will initially miss it. That's not necessarily a bad thing. It can be fun/gratifying for a reader to initially be blindsided by a development, only to realize that the clues were all there all along.

Also, just as in life, we process a lot of information subconsciously. If you want a general sense of "something wrong," you don't want to beat people over the head with it.

However, at some point the pieces have to fall into place. You can't go on being subtle for the whole book.

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