: Re: How to integrate letters, in-universe book Snippets and the like into a story So, let's say the main characters enter a building, a really big laboratory of sorts. They don't know what was

I agree that it probably isn't realistic that characters just happen to find random letters lying around every so often. So make it more varied.

In one chapter the characters find a book wedged into an opening, in another they come across a newspaper article someone taped to a wall, in another a bulletin board with the latest schedule and events.

There's more: You can have blueprints, photos, protocols, notes, handwritten notes, presentation slides, inventories, graffiti, technical drawings/diagrams, and, yes, letters.

You could also relay information via non-visual means, e.g. an answering machine, a dictaphone, an automatic emergency recording.

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: Re: How to integrate letters, in-universe book Snippets and the like into a story So, let's say the main characters enter a building, a really big laboratory of sorts. They don't know what was

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: What techniques authors use to keep track of their cast? There is a problem as stories progress (especially in never-ending web novels) where the cast of characters keep growing. Some webnovels

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