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Here's the set up. You're reading a traditional fantasy. Something is attacking the land of the elves. At long last the invaders are discovered, and they are... intelligent rabbits. My idea isn't...
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2019-12-12T17:49:00Z (over 4 years ago)
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2019-12-08T05:33:20Z (over 4 years ago)
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Here's the set up. You're reading a traditional fantasy. Something is attacking the land of the elves. At long last the invaders are discovered, and they are... intelligent rabbits. My idea isn't quite _that_ far out, but it is similar in nature. Assuming you aren't writing a comedy, how could you pull something like that off while still maintaining the serious, epic, LotR feel you're going for? More importantly, **how can you introduce something potentially laughable, and have the reader accept it as part of the story?** My ideas: At first I thought you should do it bit by bit. Find signs, tracks, rumors, that sort of thing. That would lessen the shock. The problem I see here is that doing so would increase the suspense, which could then result in a big let-down for the reader when the invaders aren't what he expected.
#1: Imported from external source
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System
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2016-09-02T02:41:56Z (over 7 years ago)
Original score: 6