“When you write, and especially when you write narrative, you create a sequential intellectual and emotional experience for the reader. From your perspective as the writer you are doing other things: describing an event, creating a record, imparting information, explaining that information’s source, or doing what my high school teachers called “showing your work”—as in “Solve this problem, show your work.” But whatever else you are doing, the fact remains: Your readers will have an intellectual and emotional experience as they read your work. If that experience isn’t pleasurable or exciting, they will stop reading. To”