The forgetful reader

[Playfulsub]

What makes you think the reader has forgotten who is who? I tend to give the reader the benefit of the doubt, more often that not. Respect their intelligence, and the ability to know your characters; most readers can handle that. I tend to think re-stating the character's position, no matter how subtly, will insult the reader's intelligence. If it's a good, necessary character, she/he won't be forgotten.

[Satan_Klaus]

What makes you think the reader has forgotten who is who? I tend to give the reader the benefit of the doubt, more often that not. Respect their intelligence, and the ability to know your characters; most readers can handle that.

I based my asumption primarily on my own experience as a reader. So I'm not insulting anybody but myself.

But I even had a case were one of my editors mixed up the names of the characters. (She remembered their positions but mixed up the names.) So it's not just me who has Alzheimer's disease.

Satan_Klaus