[ SECRET POST #3213 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3213 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Downton Abbey]


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[Vampire Weekend]


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[John Green/Nerdfighters]


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[Spartacus: Blood and Sand]


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Comments

Re: Who do you want to write like?

[(Anonymous)]

Maybe Scott Lynch? I love how seamlessly he weaves in his worldbuilding, and how as a reader you understand all these things about his world without being spoonfed. Or maybe a bit like Donna Tartt. And a little bit of Murakami's surrealism.

Re: Who do you want to write like?

[ketita]

I feel you on seamless worldbuilding. One of my personal challenges is to minimize exposition as much as possible, so that learning about the world feels natural, without anybody actually stopping to explain clunkily in a way obviously meant for the reader.

Re: Who do you want to write like?

[(Anonymous)]

It's one of my challenges as well and something I need to work on.

I mean, I want to build worlds that feels real, and for that to happen there are so many little details that need to be in place, like currency. And my characters naturally knows how these things work and they know how a Galleon is worth a lot more than a Knut, but I need my readers to know it too and I can't have a Hagrid explaining it to them. So I really need to find ways to write things in a way and a context where a potential reader just gets it without me really explaining it. It's really something I have to learn how to do properly.

Re: Who do you want to write like?

[ketita]

Same! In one of the things I'm working on, the main characters are both very proficient in magic. Which is great for them, but means that nobody is actually bothering to explain anything so the readers understand, and you have to be very careful, like you said, about them stating the obvious.

Maybe it's a combination of dividing the necessary information from the unnecessary (do the readers need this info?), and if they do, considering what types of scenarios might explain it. Like for the money - you could have a character needing to pay for something, being short, and asking another if they have the extra on them.