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Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/a/30132
License name: CC BY-SA 3.0
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1. **Set up your POV:**

2. **How our brains work:**

If the world is damn complex, then you can still use **child characters** , **"I got teleported here from our world" characters** , and **"I have amnesia" characters** (that one has the benefits of losing normal memory, but not stuff like [muscle-memory](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle_memory)), and the [**Encyclopedia Exposita**](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EncyclopediaExposita), a book that was might or might not been [written by enraged neckbeards](https://1d4chan.org/), and contains everything you need to know about the world.

1. **Voice:** different writers tend to have different voices, and thus, different "personalities", that might or might not correlate with their real-life ones. For instance:

**J.R.R. Tolkien:** Feels like if grandpa was telling a tale.

**C.S. "Multilaser" Goto:** A sadistic chaos spawn, who enjoys torturing Eldars and falls into coma (,) if he can't write down the word: "Multilaser" in the next page of his current "book".

**I also have my own:** descriptions that are strictly self-contained and allow no room for creativity, offensive jokes are played up to the extreme (funny), attempts (and fails) at following pre-established guidelines, abhors the use of metaphors, as (he thinks) it drops the reader out of the story, if you write: _"her legs were noodles"_, so replaces them with a metric load of verbs.

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