Accuracy of Detail Matters Little

Arthur Conan Doyle, author

It has always seemed to me that so long as you produce your dramatic effect, accuracy of detail matters little. I have never striven for it and I have made some bad mistakes in consequence. What matter if I hold my readers?

-Arthur Conan Doyle, author

Puffery around what you don’t want to highlight can smudge the dramatic effect of what you are trying to …