: Re: Dumping an entire world for dramatic effect? About 1/3 of the way through my story the main antagonist "wins" and is able to completely remake the world of the story into his notion of an

It sounds to me that you are writing a tragedy. The protagonist gets what he wants, but everything goes to hell.

If you still want him to be the hero, he has to change, and find some way to correct his mistakes (cooperate with the "Villain?").

Stories are about characters, not worlds. The story world can change without alienating the reader as long as the reader still has an interest in the characters.

You use the world to show that the protagonist's original worldview is thematically wrong.

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