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I agree with Standback, but his answer is not generally true. The meaning of the quote above escapes me. Besides, I happen actually to agree with Standback. The building of a unique world woul...
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#3: Attribution notice added
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System
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2019-12-08T05:51:13Z (almost 5 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision
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Lew
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2019-12-08T05:51:13Z (almost 5 years ago)
> I agree with Standback, but his answer is not generally true. The meaning of the quote above escapes me. Besides, I happen actually to agree with Standback. The building of a unique world would add color to your story (which should, of course, come first, setting being secondary and all), even if you deploy all the existing cliche elements, like FTL travel, spaceships, dragons, witches, elves, dwarves, vampires, zombies and so on. Having said that, the level of the details you throw at your reader is up to you and you only, but if you skip them completely, you are risking that your audience will have a different picture in their mind than you are trying to paint.
#1: Imported from external source
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System
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2017-01-04T21:25:05Z (almost 8 years ago)
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