First of all, there is the question of scope. Unless you’re determined to be a Tolkien or Jordan, you can’t write everything. But just because your story needs a beginning, middle and end, that doesn’t mean the world you’ve created does. Whether or not you’re into exposition and epilogues, some things happened before your story, and in all but the most extreme cases, things will continue to happen after. When you talk about people and events that exist beyond the boundaries of the current narrative, it creates the impression that your fictional world continues to exist independently of the reader, which can make it seem more like the real world.
Posted on: Sat, 01 Feb 2014 12:00:01 +0000
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