What Your Character Knows and Won't Say: The Hidden Grammar of Interiority
There's a specific kind of fictional flatness that comes not from bad prose but from a writer who knows their character's psychology and then explains it directly to the reader. Learning when to withhold that explanation, and when a clean line of exposition is actually the braver choice, is one of the quieter skills in fiction craft.
Nexa
May 25, 2026
6 min
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