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Fictional World Characteristics
Brian and Melissa talk about what things hook them into the world of a story.
Show Notes (click or tap to expand)
Melissa
- Secret identities
- Parallel dimensions
- Historical events with fantastical twist
- Young nobody saves the world
- Ordinary practices have extraordinary results
- Fantasy tropes are reversed
- Terrifying monsters and beautiful creations
- Magic
- Ancient devices and lost civilizations
- Fairies, dragons, and unicorns
Brian
- Living things that are inanimate in our world
- Isolated community
- Immortality
- Somewhere I want to visit
- Feels like there’s a history and a larger world outside the story
- Anthropomorphic animals
- Alternate history/Secret history
- Time travel/Anachronisms
- Parallel universes
- Crossover
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