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<blockquote data-quote="Clint_L" data-source="post: 9248676" data-attributes="member: 7035894"><p>Hmmm...whether or not the factuality of a claim is important to me really depends on the context in which it is presented. Like, if you want to tell me that dragons on the Forgotten Realms can fly because magic, sure. I'll go with it. If you try to tell me that they can fly because they have wings, I'm going to be looking at the mass, the size of their wings, the strength of their joints, and now I'm out of the story.</p><p></p><p>But because my main field is literature, bad writing takes me out of a story faster than anything else. Characters behaving in ways that don't make sense, just to advance the plot, instantly take me out of the story. Cliches. Expository dialogue. Mary Sue/Gary Stu-type characters. All that stuff is super cringey to me, if it's being done unintentionally.</p><p></p><p>But that doesn't mean that I am less able to suspend my disbelief. It just means that I need higher quality writing than I used to, writing that wouldn't have engaged me when I was younger.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Clint_L, post: 9248676, member: 7035894"] Hmmm...whether or not the factuality of a claim is important to me really depends on the context in which it is presented. Like, if you want to tell me that dragons on the Forgotten Realms can fly because magic, sure. I'll go with it. If you try to tell me that they can fly because they have wings, I'm going to be looking at the mass, the size of their wings, the strength of their joints, and now I'm out of the story. But because my main field is literature, bad writing takes me out of a story faster than anything else. Characters behaving in ways that don't make sense, just to advance the plot, instantly take me out of the story. Cliches. Expository dialogue. Mary Sue/Gary Stu-type characters. All that stuff is super cringey to me, if it's being done unintentionally. But that doesn't mean that I am less able to suspend my disbelief. It just means that I need higher quality writing than I used to, writing that wouldn't have engaged me when I was younger. [/QUOTE]
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