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Making References Within Writing


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Do you make a lot of references within your texts? Do you enjoy reading texts with a lot of references?

By that, I mean like, quotes from television or books or films, or references to certain events, or historical elements or classics. I really love reading stuff that’s heavy or thick with references, and I enjoy incorporating them, whether it’s very obvious or a direct quote, or if it’s something very veiled and mild, like.

 

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I appreciate a well-placed reference when I catch it, but I prefer them to be well spaced out, you know? Like if it’s obvious there are tons of references and I don’t get them (which isn’t uncommon since I’m not up on a lot of pop culture stuffs), I might feel a little alienated or detached from the story, but if it's like the rare reference I don’t get, then it’s more like something I can look up or pass over and still feel connected to the writing. That’s as a reader. 

As a writer, my references are pretty rare. And I usually try to make them pretty veiled, with the odd exception. But that might just be because there’s not a whole lot that I’m into that would make sense to a lot of people lol. 

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