Questions tagged [internal-logic]
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Can I leave out details I don’t understand?
I have a situation where a character is locked in a cell for about two week’s time. This is a medieval setting. For plot reasons, the character is chained to a block in the middle of the cell. The problem is, I have no idea how he would pee and…
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How do I give characters logical reasons to be with each other?
It's an annoying problem with writing - I've got a bunch of characters that I've written, how do I keep them together for the adventure I want them to go on?
In some stories, this can be quite annoying - reading YA novels for example, where the…
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Should the audience be immediately aware of the reason for a flashback?
In the pilot episode of "The Americans" Elizabeth has a flashback to something that happened twenty years earlier. Seeing her reflection triggers the flashback, but a reflection seems to have no earlier reference in the plot line. The flashback…
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Creating a logical framework for the concept of "decisional causality"
I'm working on a science fiction universe in which time travel exists, in a very limited form, but it's useless, at least it's the intention that it be useless. To that end time travel, on the rare occasions that it occurs at all, can violate…
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Writing: Self made logical issue with time travel in a story
So, I have not gotten anything published yet, but I have had plans for future novels including the one I am most way done with at the moment. As for the Details: It's going to be a multiverse existing where an older world used to be. There are…
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Logical flaws with 1st person pov
Quick disclaimer: Sorry, if my phrasing is not accurate, English is not my first language (and the stories I write are not in English).
I am currently writing a short story that is giving me headaches about the status of the narrator (or point of…
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Using indirect references in a justified manner
Let's say, I am writing a dark fantasy book, and there's something called the Three Fingers. The Three Fingers represent a god-like entity that has power over life.
Would it make sense to refer to it indirectly with the number three, since it's…
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Is my method of arguing here bad?
For my English class, we had to write an essay on The Prince and while I thought that my essay had a good structure and sufficiently proved my claim, my professor thought it read like a "high school essay".
I understand that it's better to build a…
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