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Accuracy of Detail Matters Little

Arthur Conan Doyle, author

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Aug 10, 2023
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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 …

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