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Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/q/25203
License name: CC BY-SA 3.0
License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

## Introduction

I said _a reader_ in the title. I don't know if I can answer this myself, as I'm not the kind of person who hates on something for not being good. I like virtually everything, and don't care if it's not realistic. I know for a fact that all readers won't be like me.

## Background

Normally, novels have a level of realism inside them. For example, contemporary fiction is well, contemporary, and so is crime, that's often quite real. Fantasy is often real to a degree - for example, there are peasants and lords, injustice in the realm. Sci-fi is also real to a degree, some parts believable and could actually be possible.

I just really like wandering minstrels, pretty princesses, valiant knights, strange dragons and beasts that the king and queen can slay together. I can safely say that, as a hardcore fantasy reader, _I have never read a fantasy book where there are wandering minstrels, plenty of princesses and princes, valiant knights that go on treasure quests for the king, queens that defend the city, etc._

Obviously, I have took note of this and made my novel so it **is not** just wandering minstrels, valiant knights, and instead has plenty of peasants and injustice. I think that even for fantasy, those ideas are too unreal for a reader to like them. So...

## Question

> How feasible and real does any book have to be for readers to enjoy it? Does a reader care if an author goes too far with the strange, wandering minstrels, and whatever else I said? Would it matter if I made the whole thing like what I described?

Thanks!

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_Note: I acknowledge that stack exchange doesn't like hypothetical questions. I am not actually writing this, instead I am writing something more realistic and plausible (even for fantasy). This is more a question of if I write down what I dream about every night, what would happen?_

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