Nicolas Cole uses the movie In Time to argue that readers have finite attention. Writers must earn that time by making every word count and constantly asking: what am I saying that makes this worth their limited hours?
What's that movie? I think Justin Timberlake's in it where you got the little wristband and everyone, you can see like the time. Is it called In Time? And you can like see how much time you have left. That is basically what's happening. You're like, I wrote this thing and this person has their little, you know, futuristic wristwatch and they only have so much time on planet Earth. And you're going, I want you to give me a little bit of that finite resource in exchange for reading this. And so if you keep that in mind, the question to ask yourself is, what am I saying that makes the value of that time more and more worth it. Yeah.
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