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Gosh, I really think I'm quite clever sometimes. But what about those situations where the readers (audience) can be told, and they feel completely satiated and entertained by not going into the nu...
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world-building
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System
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2019-12-08T06:03:28Z (almost 5 years ago)
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Stu W
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2019-12-08T06:03:28Z (almost 5 years ago)
Gosh, I really think I'm quite clever sometimes. But what about those situations where the readers (audience) can be told, and they feel completely satiated and entertained by not going into the nuts and bolts. There are tons of examples: How about all the James Bond gadgets? Especially the fireball-shooting pen (_Never Say Never Again_, I think). And then there's the opposite, like the information dump from Morpheus to Neo in _The Matrix_. I ate them both up. Why? What made me want to know everything in one situation but tune out the rational part of my brain in others? **More importantly, how do I know when to keep world-building explanations short versus totally geeking-out?** _I believe this is a writers question rather than a world builders since I'm not asking HOW to build a world._
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System
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2017-02-05T16:01:04Z (almost 8 years ago)
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