: Re: Techniques to write for a wider audience Many years ago, I wrote a short story that used specific information from my cultural background e.g. a belief that if you dream something, it is a

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If these are insignificant details, footnotes or mentions by characters are okay.

If these are more central to the story but not likely to be widely known, a cabbagehead may ask for detailed information.

If it's central to the story, the culture and all characters, something quite a bit too common for a cabbagehead to ask, or too broad to answer, write a prologue about that.

An example of this: Fallout:Equestria prologue "Of PipBucks and Cutie Marks," containing the sacramental sentence:

So yes, PipBucks really are a testament to unicorn pony arcane
science. And yes, having a PipBuck is a big advantage. So with how
wonderful and miraculous all that just sounded, it’s hard to impress
upon ponies who never lived in a Stable just how ordinary, how
pedestrian a PipBuck was in the eyes of the ponies living in Stable
Two.

It would be absolutely stupid to seek a cabbagehead who needed this explained. That was far too common, too pedestrian to explain differently than through a chapter where the protagonist turns directly to the readers with explanation, ending the prologue with "Pleased to meet you. Here is my story..."

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