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What is your target audience and what is your purpose? Do you look to entertain your audience or also teach them? What’re your average reader science skills. Most people do not know (or care) muc...
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System
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2019-12-08T10:45:35Z (almost 5 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision
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Jorge Córdoba
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2019-12-08T10:45:35Z (almost 5 years ago)
What is your target audience and what is your purpose? Do you look to entertain your audience or also teach them? What’re your average reader science skills. Most people do not know (or care) much about quantum mechanics or physics in general. If those are your target audience and you don’t intend to teach them, then learn enough _plausible_ concepts to move your story along. If your average reader is, let’s say, hardcore sci-fi reader with advanced physics knowledge then there’s only one way to go. You’ll need to learn more than your average reader knows. There’s no fooling this part, you can’t fool someone that knows more than you do, you either hire that knowledge or you get that knowledge yourself, there’s no faking it. I can tell from miles away when someone doesn’t know what he’s talking about on my area of expertise, and I can pretty much judge their level of knowledge after a 2 or 3 hour chat (I call it an interview :P). So the question is, what’s your average reader like?
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System
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2019-01-31T21:27:07Z (almost 6 years ago)
Original score: 3