I have the same difficulty with wanting to put in caveats in my explanations and having to keep them down. With the novel I'm ostensibly working on right now, my first draft of the preface explaining the setting was six pages, which is way too long for a preface of that type. I had to rewrite it from scratch five times before I got it down to a page and a half.
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Date: 2009-06-29 02:13 am (UTC)