Jon Sparks<p><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> 1/4: Do you include in-jokes, hidden messages, or “Easter eggs” in your writing?<br>There are definitely allusions that only come across if you share a certain cultural background, but isn’t that going to be true of all writing? You can’t footnote everything that some people might not get.<br>But I’m careful to avoid anything that’s too clearly grounded in contemporary culture or idiomatic language, because that could break the worldbuilding.<br><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/writersofmastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writersofmastodon</span></a></p>