Missing Day

MISSING DAY Apologies, Fantasy Author’s Handbook fans, but right now’s publish was set aside for a family medical emergency. All’s properly now, however here it's 11:30 p.m. within the Seattle area, and I’m just now getting to the computer. How about a fast thought exercise for this week? Your characters are busy getting about their enterprise when, totally without warning or additional meaning to the story, considered one of them needs an emergency appendectomy. Because that’s how that happens: completely with out warning or additional which means to the story. â€"Philip Athans About Philip Athans So, my query is, if one thing happens that is “with out further that means to the story” is it price including within the story? Wouldn’t that fall according to issues like sleeping and going to the bathroom? An emergency appendectomy isn’t mundane like these issues are, but if it doesn’t affect the story in any respect, is it truly a part of the story you’re making an attempt to inform as an writer? Yes and no. Anything that merely doesn’t matter is like going to the bathroom, burping, and so forth., however sometimes we get a little too “causal” in fantasy and SF, so that everything has some kind of greater significance. It’s not only a bad appendix it’s the result of a curse or a poison or radiation exposure, and so on. rather than random happenstance. But what then follows WILL matter to the story, like characters taken out of the motion by the flu in The Walking Dead. The illness itself is a random occasion but its implications take the story in interesting new directions. Fill in your particulars beneath or click an icon to log in: You are commenting utilizing your WordPress.com account. (Log Out/ Change) You are commenting using your Google account. (Log Out/ Change) You are commenting using your Twitter account. (Log Out/ Change) You are commenting utilizing your Facebook account. (Log Out/ Change) Connecting to %s Notify me of new feedback by way of e-mail. Notify me of recent posts through email. Enter your email handle to subscribe to Fantasy Author's Handbook and receive notifications of recent posts by e-mail. Join four,779 different followers Sign me up! RSS - Posts RSS - Comments