Martin
Search results
4. The creation of the universe is where suspension of disbelief is allowed. Violating the rules/laws/physics of an already created world breaks the suspension of disbelief. For example, most of what James Bond does in the movies is just not possible in real life. However, because it is a James Bond movie and the world created around the ...
Oct 1, 2017 · So, somehow Stephen King has managed to make a completely ridiculous character that people still for some reason take seriously (there are also other links that showcase beings with the characteristics, described in the blue text, who aren't laughable or disbelief-suspension breaking).
Mar 12, 2021 · Suspension of Disbelief We do not commonly use idioms and expressions from long ago, from other cultures that we know little of, or from worlds we have never heard of. For example "To the Crows with him" was (in Greek) an expression common in classic Greece, I understand, meaning something like "to hell with him" in modern English.
May 8, 2018 · The potential problems are from the techniques themselves, however, not from the way you are indicating them. Changing POV breaks into the suspension of disbelief that comes when you start to identify with the book's POV. It's not something that happens in real life, so it's an extra mental adjustment for the reader.
Jun 17, 2018 · If I spot a mistake in something I'm reading, it breaks my immersion, shatters my suspension of disbelief. Just to distinguish, because it might help for OP's obstacles: If the incorrect or vague statement is made by a character, one who is not particularly all-knowing (as opposed to the statement being made by the plot/narrator); then it doesn't really break the immersion.
4. You and your reader are collaborating to produce engagement in your story. Your reader's contribution is "suspension of disbelief," a willingness to accept some unrealistic elements as a part of the story. Part of your half of the bargain is making that suspension of disbelief easy to maintain.
Feb 8, 2017 · 1. Superstitions in real life aren't usually motivated through an explanation of how they work. The red haired girl is a witch not because red hair has some kind of magic power – which of course it doesn't – but because red hair is rare (in continental Europe) and marks the girl as different.
Jun 12, 2016 · In point of fact, all fiction rides on the back of suspension of disbelief --we know the narrative is invented when we start the story, but we start to experience it as real as it is made vivid to us. To give one example, I knew the secret of the movie The Sixth Sense before I ever watched it, but that didn't stop me from losing sight of it ...
Jun 22, 2017 · The good faction, that follows the Geneva Convention to a fault, has a really similar aesthetics to that of the Nazis. The railguns (as the story is sci-fi) used by the good faction are all named after infamous mass-shooters, based on what weapon they used (e.g: the SMG is called "Klebold") So things that are connected to the Nazis and evil ...
Apr 10, 2019 · In third person limited the narrator can only see what the POV sees. There may be things outside his line of vision that he could hear or smell, which the narrator could describe. However, in the scenario described in this questions comments, (character clenching his jaw while facing away) could possibly be tweaked to allow description.
