Hello Reader, ‘This might be the most important thing you learn about writing,’ I heard myself say. And then I laughed. This week under the water We were wrapping up our latest Creative Writing Course, which runs for an evening a week over ten weeks. We were talking about restraint, and how important it is not to ‘explain’. Your readers are clever, I told them. They’re used to picking up clues and spotting the significance in nuance. You don’t have to hit them over the head, either with your...