Your most important job as a writer is to make sure that your reader never gets lost.
In my last post, I deliberately let you get lost so you could see what it feels like.
That was pretty easy to do by bringing up material that didn’t follow from the first idea I discussed in the paragraph.
But whenever you write something that’s more than a few lines long, you can confuse your readers without intending to. It happens even to experienced writers, because of a weird dynamic in how writing works.