[ SECRET POST #3238 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3238 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Writers: World-building and character designing

[(Anonymous)]

Well, I mean, my point would be that those stories are shitty stories because they are shitty, poorly-written stories that use magic in a way that is inappropriate for the story. They are not bad stories because their use of magic broke the rules.

I agree that the use of rules for magic can be a useful technique for some writers to use to ensure that they're not writing stories badly in that particular way. But I don't think it's an end in itself. If someone can write a story where magic has no rules, but also doesn't make it so it's randomly hopping from this to that to the other, I don't think that story is inherently bad.

I agree that writers should have a grasp on how the world works - but I think the relevant criteria of how a world works is about the story as a tonal aesthetic whole, NOT about the internal consistency of the world, let alone its realism in terms of our world.

Re: Writers: World-building and character designing

[tabaqui]

Yes, but, if the world is based on *our* world, and you're saying this, this, this and this work like they do here, but - yay! we can turn gravity off! I'm going to want to know *why*. I'm going to want a reason. It doesn't have to be NASA approved or whatever, but at least *try*.

I do think a story-world really does need it's own internal consistency to make sense and make the plot work, but that's just my feeling on the matter. If a story isn't working for me that way, i'll just quit reading it.