: I keep going back to the story in Breaking Bad. The purpose of the story, novel or TV series, is to establish characters in an environment and then show how they react or accommodate to

I keep going back to the story in Breaking Bad. The purpose of the story, novel or TV series, is to establish characters in an environment and then show how they react or accommodate to some shift in their world or events in their lives.

The main character gets cancer. This changes his goals and eventually his values. Eventually he becomes someone he had not expected to become. He struggles with the choices he makes all along the way. Some changes he sees and others he does not untill they are pointed out to him.

We are brought to his life at that exact point, not a year sooner or later, just to see how he reacts. Had we just watched him stay healthy, grow older and his kids grow up it would be a yawner.

You can have a consistent environment but why are we seeing it on this day? Why not earlier or later? If written well the novelty of the future or past is notable to the reader but not the character. They are used to flying cars, horse drawn and otherwise. What is new and different to the hero? Is his flying car not where he parked it?

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: I'll skip repeating what others have said. Some additional thoughts: As other have pointed out, "tiphoof" is probably not an anatomically accurate term for how a hoofed creature would ever walk,

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: Many sexual situations, but no actual sex scenes? My guile heroine's character arc is almost entirely sex and manipulation. I tell (not show) she was a sex worker in the past, it's left ambiguous

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: How do I subvert the tropes of a train heist? What are the recognizable tropes to a "train heist", or more broadly the action sequences where a protagonist boards a moving train in order to

: I keep going back to the story in Breaking Bad. The purpose of the story, novel or TV series, is to establish characters in an environment and then show how they react or accommodate to

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: I'll skip repeating what others have said. Some additional thoughts: As other have pointed out, "tiphoof" is probably not an anatomically accurate term for how a hoofed creature would ever walk,

: How do I mix linear and non-linear "choices" in an interactive novel? In my interactive novel, I'm trying to keep the word count between choice prompts fairly short and consistent, but that

: Many sexual situations, but no actual sex scenes? My guile heroine's character arc is almost entirely sex and manipulation. I tell (not show) she was a sex worker in the past, it's left ambiguous

: How do I subvert the tropes of a train heist? What are the recognizable tropes to a "train heist", or more broadly the action sequences where a protagonist boards a moving train in order to

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