World-Detailing in Science-Fiction and Fantasy Stories
Wednesday, November 2nd, 2005 @ 19:27
Due to having gotten up way too early for my own sake this morning, yet not being fresh enough to properly work on my NaNovel, I was sifting through my “How to…” book by Orson Scott Card again, and this is when I realized that he had at some point written something that sounded true: in works of sci-fi and fantasy, the way many authors depict the worlds they have created isn’t the same as the way an author in other kinds of fiction would do. Or, should I say, us readers don’t interpret it the classical way, and tend to read between the lines, perhaps.
