[#]WritersCoffeeClub 01/25—Do you have a worked-out magical system (or advanced technology in sci-fi)? Or do you make it up as you go?
Magic and/or tech in fiction need to make sense as tools that enable the protagonists to achieve ends, and which also have plausible side-effects and second-order consequences. But trying to work out everything in advance is a fool's errand: could Rudolf Diesel have anticipated the VW diesel exhaust emissions scandal, a century after his death?
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