Be very careful about being openly political in your writings. It is very risky, with a low chance of payoff.
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Jan 18 — 5 mins read
Keeping a reader’s attention means leading them down a path that looks interesting and unknown in some way. You have to entice them down this path by first getting their attention (the “hook” in any novel), making a lot of promises early on, and then delivering on those promises quickly. This sets a pattern of repeated promise-delivery that the reader gets used to.