/lit/ - Literature

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Worldbuilding is an essential part of epic-fantasy style writing. I'm writing a very long and very hefty story that while character driven, has a big sub plot about exploring and pathfinding. So I focus a lot on the places I want them to go, especially for how they fit into the story and how the characters would interact with them. Then, I think about the differnet sub-locations they could find, villages with some quirks to them, ruins, flora and fauna, sights they could see etc etc.

On a side note, I need some advice concerning suspension of disbelief. One of my main PoV characters is an alcoholic who is almost always at least tipsy. If he doesn't drink for a while or goes cold turkey, he gets tremors, shakes and chills running up and down his body. I have it written so that these negative consequences disappear as soon as he gets drunk again, thus necessitating him to constantly be drunk, thus prepetuating bits of his story.

What I'm asking is, is this too weird / unrealistic, or is it just realistic enough for people to not find it stupid?