... of the story. Sometimes, the author is looking at the world years, decades, or centuries after the change, as in Randall Garrett’s Lord Darcy stories, which are set in the early 1900s in a world where the point of change was that Richard the Lion-Hearted did not die ...
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Search again:... than some other things (dialog, theme, characterization, worldbuilding), mainly because part of marketing a novel is producing a plot ... is unlikely to spot problems with balance in exposition or worldbuilding). Beta-readers can be a useful shortcut for spotting macro-level ...
Search again:... only in retrospect, when the writer (and sometimes the world) has moved on that flaws in the writer’s worldview become obvious, and by then it’s usually too late to fix – as in ...
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Search again:... for him, based on what you know about the story and the world. How did he meet the villain? Has he been with her since she started her ... of other characters. Some of it may require tweaking the worldbuilding so that there suddenly are pirate magicians in this world, or ...
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