Posts by Ville Niemi
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...
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 r...
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 ab...
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...
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...
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 advic...
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. T...
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 fo...
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 ...
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 comp...
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 o...
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...
