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To come up with fun, amusing, terrible advice that sounds almost rational.
You guys are no fun. I'll go sulk somewhere else.
I got the joke. I think Wendig did something similar in one of his blogs, though of course there was more swearing.
I'll add to the list: readers think it's dull for writers to stick with one narrative point of view per scene. Head ping pong is where it's at. Extra points of you can sneak the perspective of an all-knowing narrator in between forays into the deep perceptions of every character in the scene. so the reader really has to work to know which thought or perception is coming from where.
And dialogue about obvious things that all the characters know is a great way to provide backstory and world building. "As you know, Bob, we've been living in an ecotopian dictatorship since the Great Oil Rebellion of 2078, and I've been prone to periodic flashbacks for the past twenty years, because I was in Washington DC when the Earth Bester scum detonated their clean energy bomb."
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