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I think that coming up with the reasoning for and writing a description of someone transforming into another creature entirely that contains a great deal more mass, bones and musculature than its original incarnation has been my greatest challenge as a writer to date.
That’s kind of sad, I think.
It’s not that everything else is easy by comparison ( Read more... )
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I find it much more infuriating when the storyteller fails to explain major plot twists, and the basic behavior of the world and the characters in it.
See Harry Potter.
I don't really care where all the excess mass in transformation sequences comes from, I just want to know who the hell would bother locking a door inside a freaking magic school with a simple physical lock, when every moron on his first year can go "alohamora" all over it and just waltz right in.
THAT'S the kinda stuff that makes me mad.
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The physical lock thing is a good example. If you're going to go to lengths to create a world, you have to think about how and why things happen the way they do in the context of that world. If everyone can cast magic, it stands to reason that someone would have developed a more effective system for keeping people out of areas they shouldn't be in. When you neglect little details like this, you're failing to really establish a complete fantasy world.
Choosing not to explain how something transforms is in the same vein. Things don't just happen, and I think it's the duty of the writer to at least know why they happen, even if they don't explain every detail of it. It shows in the end.
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