Handy rule
Dec. 23rd, 2004 06:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethFound while reading movie reviews:
There's an old axiom in fiction writing which says it's okay to ask a reader to believe the impossible but not the improbable.
For example, it's okay to say that a maniac has activated an antimatter bomb in the wall safe, but it's not okay to say that someone miraculously guessed the right combination on the first try.
There's an old axiom in fiction writing which says it's okay to ask a reader to believe the impossible but not the improbable.
For example, it's okay to say that a maniac has activated an antimatter bomb in the wall safe, but it's not okay to say that someone miraculously guessed the right combination on the first try.
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Date: 2004-12-23 07:29 am (UTC)