Brain is Musty...: Ficlet O'Clock Truth or Dare

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This entry is part 35 of 35 in the series 365 Challenge

The current prompts are leaving me dull and uninspired. Seeking creative procrastination: ask me any question about how something works in a storyworld, a why that's been pestering you, or any backstory you just really want to know, and I'll commentfic it.

If that doesn't inspire you, how about a character (original or fandom) and something crazy you would dare them to do.

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Re: To Dance with a Dragon

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I'm actually working on a pretty big piece with you and in_the_blue in mind, called Remembrance, and I'm hoping to dig into the sweep of Vardin's history and mindset and somehow not confuse the mess out of anyone who reads it.

I tend to write from insiders, and that's no help at all half the time.

Re: To Dance with a Dragon

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Whenever I can, I sneak in someone who doesn't know what's going on so that I can have the explanation come out if I can't figure out a way to ease the details into the story itself.

Then again, I have others where the explanation just refuses to come.

Re: To Dance with a Dragon

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The problem for me with outsiders is they pretty much don't know what's going on and aren't going to because insiders usually keep their mouths shut and their brain going. I keep mucking around in closed cultures, alas. But there are ways, and I keep using them. The problem I think you're running into most of all is that you've read everything so you can mix together hints from multiple stories that would normally mean little and little confusion by themselves, but together, they require a good bit of gap-filling. Going to write you some comment answers as soon as I get some spare moments.

Re: To Dance with a Dragon

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The kids get educated about the past and their roles, though, so that might be a possibility, having a parent/teacher/tutor explaining it to someone else.

(Now I must admit... I did that with the Memory Collector when I realized there was too much unexplained history.)

Yeah, that's probably it. I've filled in the blanks for myself a few times, and I usually guess wrong.