I wrote a whole novel draft where my main character never left his apartment. My friend asked 'what's the weather like outside?' and I realized I'd forgotten to set a single scene.

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My buddy wrote a whole fantasy book and his editor asked what color the sky was. He had to add a line in chapter three saying it was blue. He'd described the magic system for pages but forgot the actual world.

luna_wells5729d ago

Did the editor ask about the sky color because it was actually a different color in that world? Seems like a weird detail to miss unless it's not blue.

aaron_kim4613d ago

Wait, he wrote a whole book and never said what color the sky was? That's wild... @the_thea, how do you build a whole magic system and forget to tell people what the world looks like? I get being deep in the details, but that's a basic thing you need to picture a place. It's like describing how a car engine works but forgetting to say if it's a truck or a sedan. You just assume it's normal until someone points it out, I guess.