What do you include that readers probably don't notice?

[Writer61]

And here's the "readers probably don't notice" bit: it's a reference to "Prince Caspian" by CS Lewis, where a stone bridge that's built across a river shackles the god of that river.

CS Lewis … yeurgh.

 

[RIPAphrodite]

I always have at least one scene of a guy naked and he has the most absolutely amazing ass…real firm checks that you could bounce a quarter off of

 

[StillStunned]

CS Lewis … yeurgh.

Value judgments aside, the scene has stuck with me all these decades as a particularly strong image of the struggle between nature and civilisation.

 

[RIPAphrodite]

If I have an asshole in my story, they are always eating an apple

 

[Rob_Royale]

Well I dropped some Stephen King Easter eggs in my Halloween entry, but no ones called me on them yet.

 

[Candy_Kane54]

I dropped a Bronze Radio Return reference in my story and no one noticed ...

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

Bunch of stuff in the Shoes that really shouldn't be too obscure.

 

[HordHolm]

I've stuffed my Penny Dreadful stories with so many easter eggs that I'm starting to get chocolate poisoning - I have easter eggs from the Flashman stories, from Fawlty Towers, from Shakespeare... And nobody ever seems to notice *sigh*...

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

I've stuffed my Penny Dreadful stories with so many easter eggs that I'm starting to get chocolate poisoning - I have easter eggs from the Flashman stories, from Fawlty Towers, from Shakespeare... And nobody ever seems to notice *sigh*...

Que?

 

[summer_reine]

The first name of the two main characters in my mechanic story were very carefully chosen. The reason is subtle but I hope it will become less so in the next few chapters. There is another less subtle reference but I'm having a difficult time working in the reason (after a major reworking of the story) so it may simply be quirky.

 

[HordHolm]

Que?

Yep. I have a doctor moaning about wanting sausages after his breakfast is delayed - from Fawlty Towers, The Kipper and the Corpse.