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A: The unknown and unexplained in science fiction Scientific plausibility is maintained by not doing anything that breaks it. That is all there is to it. Details get bit more complex. Unless you somehow signal otherwise the default assumption any reader will and should make is that your world works the same as the world they are familiar with. The ... (more) |
— | over 5 years ago |
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A: How to compactly explain secondary and tertiary characters without resorting to stereotypes? I kind of feel bad writing an answer since everything I really want to say has already been said here. But it has been said by several different people in multiple answers and comments. So I kind of have to write a readable summary? Also for the things mentioned in comments, they are not written in t... (more) |
— | over 5 years ago |
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A: Avoiding the "not like other girls" trope? Start by understanding that a girl with super-powers is a girl just like any other girl except with added super-powers. Then understand that it is perfectly normal for girls to be capable and competent. And that those are qualities you learn from experience. So your characters would over time grow t... (more) |
— | over 5 years ago |
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A: How do I hide Chekhov's Gun? The way to foreshadow something without giving it away is to use it to tell something else. If you tell there is a gun, people think it might be used to shoot someone. If you tell that a person is a police officer who takes his gun off when he comes home? Well, somebody is still probably going to get... (more) |
— | almost 6 years ago |
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A: Help! My Character is too much for her story! Introduce the actual plot? You may or may not actually have a problem. You have a character who is inherently more interesting than the others, she will naturally dominate the part of the story focussing on character introductions and set up. One solution is indeed to balance the characters but you... (more) |
— | almost 6 years ago |
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A: Is the "what" more important than the "how"? Crafting the story and plot is part of the "how". If you really have "a save the world done right" you have nothing to worry about since that implies that you crafted the plot and story properly. This is contradicted by your unhappiness with the plot and story. I know this is not very helpful but I ... (more) |
— | almost 7 years ago |
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A: How do you handle violence in a story with a female as the main villian? It is not your problem. The one having the problem is your character. Your job is to figure out how he solves it and convey that to the reader. As such while the other answers gave some good advice on how to deal with such issues, there cannot be a general answer that works for all characters. The s... (more) |
— | almost 7 years ago |
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A: If I unnofficially create a theory and use it in my story, will it have any validity that I'm the author of such theory? Generally the manner of publication makes no difference. If you have published it, you are its author and have the right to get credit for it. This is actually one of the rights that are covered by an international treaty and can't be transferred or lost. That said... People will not credit you for... (more) |
— | about 7 years ago |
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A: How feasible is it to write a story without any worldbuilding? Not really. " Worldbuilding" is much broader term than the question or most answers seem to assume. I ass-u-me that what is actually intended is to avoid doing any explicit exposition) on the setting, so that the setting is either discovered implicitly as the story progresses or left obscured. That ... (more) |
— | almost 8 years ago |
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A: Hang on - where's the main conflict? Honestly, I think you might be overthinking it and trying to use improper abstraction to understand detective fiction. So instead of explaining conflict in typical detective fiction, I'll use an abstraction I find more convenient, which should be broadly applicable to understanding the conflict if yo... (more) |
— | over 8 years ago |
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A: What is the "inner consistency of reality" that Tolkein refers to in his essay On Faerie Stories? While a story does not need to be consistent with reality, it should have the same consistency with itself as reality has. "Inner consistency" simply refers to being consistent within itself. "Of reality" means of same quality as the self-consistency of everyday reality we know. In practice this mor... (more) |
— | about 9 years ago |
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A: Use of realism in a fictional setting The term you want is verisimilitude. Basically, you want to avoid breaking the readers suspension of disbelief. This means that what happens must be consistent to the rules of what can happen that the reader has accepted for the setting. If the story is set in the real world, this is close, but not ... (more) |
— | almost 10 years ago |