The setting of the story and how to present it.
Suspension of disbelief is essentially what allows fiction to be entertaining. Thanks to it, the audience member of a Shakespeare play can enjoy the show without asking the person sitting next to him “Are those people crazy? Why are they talking to each other like that?”. It allows the reader of a book to let …
The central theme or idea of a story is the message that the writer wants the audience to understand after watching his movie or reading his book. Some believe that a story should not have a central theme or idea at all, that it should be written just to entertain. But the truth is that …
Worldbuilding is one of the most exciting parts of writing a story. There’s a reason why games like Minecraft, that allow you to let your creativity go wild, are so popular and so addictive. You can play God by creating a world out of thin air: decide what species populate it, what are the natural …
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