
16.47: Believable Worlds Part 1: The Illusion of Real
Writing Excuses
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Writing Speculative Fiction, Specificity Is More Powerful Than Vague
The idea behind this is that when youare writing and describing something in your prose, specific is more powerful than vague. This goes not just for contemporary fiction, but also for speculative fiction. You can absolutely invent specificity that does the heavy lifting of world building for you without really being noticed. And i love to do this by creating names for the luxury cars in my world,.
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