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Some stories feature random events that bring about drastic change either to the characters or to the setting. A lottery draw, some gotcha that grants a special skill. Most of the times I find on...
#3: Attribution notice added
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System
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2019-12-08T09:33:25Z (almost 5 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/q/38066 License name: CC BY-SA 3.0 License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
#2: Initial revision
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Mindwin
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2019-12-08T09:33:25Z (almost 5 years ago)
Some stories feature random events that bring about drastic change either to the characters or to the setting. A lottery draw, some gotcha that grants a special skill. Most of the times I find one of these in a story, they seem fake. Instead of feeling random, it feels tailored for the story: The random ability was just right to solve problem X, etc. I am not talking about stories where the outcome of the event is the driving force of the plot as in a story about a lottery winner's life after they won the prize. **How can I weave a random event into the story and make the reader feel like it was really random, instead of just some convenient manipulation for the sake of plot?** * * * RNJesus (or RNGod) are terms coined from the computation acronym RNG (Random Number Generator) is when randomness feels fake and convenient. More on that: [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RNGesus](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RNGesus)
#1: Imported from external source
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System
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2018-08-03T14:12:43Z (over 6 years ago)
Original score: 16