Here's The Thing About Fiction. - Comments

I don't really like whe authors do that, but if the story is truly incredible, I'm willing to suspend belief and let it go. It has to earn that right though, and there are very few stories who have. Because most stories with glaring innacuracies and such like that, have plenty of other things wrong with them.

Well, I think suspension of disbelief works to a certain point. I mean, let me be a major nerd and use Naruto as an example. There's some major plot holes in that story, but people are willing to fore go them because the story wouldn't be possible without them. Like, whenever I'm watching TV with someone and they say, "Why didn't they just do this or that," or something like that, I just tell them that because if they didn't do whatever they did, there would be no story.

But it's not something you can just use whenever and wherever you want. You can't just drop something in a story and expect people not to question it, you know?

To me, having to worry about whether my plot is realistic or not hasn't ruined fiction for me, but maybe that's because I've been interested in realistic fiction from the get-go. It really has just made it a lot more interesting to me. I'm like a scientist when I write - I feel like I'm creating a formula, and making my plot correct is just an ingredient.

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