When reading science fiction or fantasy are you more likely to skip through the action scenes to find out how the world works or are you more often interested in action and bored by exposition?
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When reading science fiction or fantasy are you more likely to skip through the action scenes to find out how the world works or are you more often interested in action and bored by exposition?
The heart of storytelling is always character. (I say this, as someone is generally more interested in the world building than characters.)
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When reading science fiction or fantasy are you more likely to skip through the action scenes to find out how the world works or are you more often interested in action and bored by exposition?
The heart of storytelling is always character. (I say this, as someone is generally more interested in the world building than characters.)
Good world-building reveals character; it challenges and shapes to people in your story. perhaps what I find lacking in certain fight or battle scenes is a similar connection to character.
Sometimes the main characters a book on their way to an objective and a problem arises, and it can feel very much like the author has inserted the problem because otherwise it would be boring.
“but oh no it’s the bad guys”
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Good world-building reveals character; it challenges and shapes to people in your story. perhaps what I find lacking in certain fight or battle scenes is a similar connection to character.
Sometimes the main characters a book on their way to an objective and a problem arises, and it can feel very much like the author has inserted the problem because otherwise it would be boring.
“but oh no it’s the bad guys”
Sometimes, if you are a world-building focused writer, people will suggest adding “more action” and I think one should always *listen* to advice (what you *do* about it? that’s another matter)
When I hear the words “more action,” I think “so add a sword fight??” This is being overly literal. How are your characters in conflict with the world that you are building? How does revealing more about the world complicate expose more of who they are?
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When reading science fiction or fantasy are you more likely to skip through the action scenes to find out how the world works or are you more often interested in action and bored by exposition?
The heart of storytelling is always character. (I say this, as someone is generally more interested in the world building than characters.)
@futurebird
in most cases it is the world-building that I am most interested in. Wally Broecker's _How to Build a Habitable Planet_ is my idea of a great SF novel ... although he wrote it to be a college textbook.
