Realistic Settings and Making Your Story Believable
Any novelist, whether they’re writing for children or adults, must invent a completely imagined world and the creation of realistic settings is a key element in any story. Even the often highly fantastic universe created by fantasy or science fiction writers must always rest on extremely solid foundations.
Just as the time travel methods in my novels had to seem to be plausible, the scientific facilities in the LennoxGen research complex featured in much of The Clone Conspiracy, along with the company’s vast maze-like underground area, had to be described vividly enough to consistently capture the imagination of the reader, even if they may be very familiar with descriptions of laboratories, hospitals, and similar settings from other books, movies, and TV shows.
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