Swimmer963 comments on SotW: Be Specific - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Swimmer963 14 April 2012 02:28:12AM 1 point [-]

I would say 'fiction' because you're forced to come up with details yourself, and 'erotic' because that's where most people, including lots of authors, shy away from specific details...the memory of painful making yourself write very explicitly would be a more memorable lesson than writing about something innocuous like, I don't know, two siblings playing Lego.