/lit/ - Literature

>>9599951
>teenage girl POV

>>9591681

I had the exact same concerns as you do, anon, and then I realized they're just bullshit reasons to put off writing for as long as possible. The truth is, you're never going to know enough about every discipline to make your world feel "realistic." At the same time, it's not important in the slightest. As you can tell from all the shitty movies that come out, fans go out of their way with mental gymnastics to justify the most outrageous shit.

If you keep fixating on these things you'll end up in the same boat as I did: dreaming for close to ten years about writing, but spending my entire time reading nonfiction in order to make my world-building feel "realistic." So now I know a bunch of nonsense that's probably never going to play an important part, while my writing isn't nearly as polished as it could be.

When it comes down to it, good storytelling has nothing to do with realism. Nothing. I mean that. N o t h i n g. People will buy into the craziest shit so long as it's emotionally engaging. So long as you know how to do characterization, dialogue, and to keep a plot moving, nothing else matters.

Just look at Lost. It was all a bunch of bullshit fake mysteries, but it's always going to be remembered, because S1 was some of the best, most dramatic, most engaging television ever made. And guess what? Even after the creators fucked up EVERYTHING, even the characters, people STILL try to justify how it all fit in, because they're that attached to those fucking story from S1.

>people arguing about whether they're reddit or tumblr instead of arguing about malazan and prince of nothing

This new thread was a mistake. We need to go back.