to believe in your world
28th March 2017 | for Creatives | fantasy, writing, reaching your audience, David Gerrold |
"Go ahead, make something up! Anything. After all, this is fantasy, right? Wrong. The audience still wants to believe in your world—and believability comes from the recognition of an internally consistent system of logic. If things are not consistent, they are (literally!) unbelievable."
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