clarity is your job

if someone doesn't get what you said, that's not on them. that's on you. you didn't build the bridge cleanly enough. you left gaps in the scaffolding. you expected a leap where you should've laid a path.

a storyteller's job isn't to be right. it's to be received. if the audience misses the point, the failure isn't their cognition, it's your construction. you didn't tune the signal. you didn't account for their priors. you didn't shape the idea so it could actually land.

misunderstanding is rarely if ever a reader problem. it's an author problem. the world doesn't owe your thoughts comprehension. you fucking owe the world clarity.