This Is My Hole, It Was Made for Me: On Negative Space and Leaving Room for the Reader

A story is a type of conversation with the reader. If you don’t leave room for the reader to speak, you’re a terrible conversationalist. This room, this essential emptiness, is called negative space. In this episode, we will discuss why the words you don’t write are just as important as the words you do. We are joined by MK Anderson.

Links:

• QualiaRedux on Youtube

• Qualia’s Patreon

• Cedar Court

• Grizzly

• Writing in the Negative

• Negative Space is a Positive for Creative Writers

• The Analogy of the Wheel in Daoism and Ba Gua Zhang

• 6 Times ‘The Good Place’ Was Obsessed with Frozen Yogurt

• Less worrying about confusing your worst reader, more worrying about impressing your best reader.

• Where a Vampire Walked, Tastes Clash

• The hot Mothman statue

• Morbier

About Rite Gud: Raquel S. Benedict is an author, appearing in Fantasy and Science Fiction and Gardner Dozois’ The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of The Year’s Best Science Fiction. Matt Keeley, founder of Kittysneezes, is producing Rite Gud for KS Media, LLC. Rite Gud is a Kittysneezes production. If you have questions, comments and concerns, email ritegud – at – kittysneezes – dot – com. Rite Gud is also on Patreon, at patreon.com/ritegud. Patrons receive access to the official Kittysneezes Discord, exclusive episodes, critiques and more. 

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