When I was first trying to learn to write, I listened to pretty much all of Brandon Sanderson's lectures I could find. Even years later, despite a lot of growth since then, it is very obvious how strong that influenced my writing.
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Although ironically once Star Wars got past the opening crawl it was considered "groundbreaking" for big-budget sci-fi movies because it was so confident about following OSC's rules Star Wars has no almost technobabble exposition at all, e.g.
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How does a hyperdrive actually work? What are the rules governing its function? How fast is it in real-life terms? None of the characters would ever have any reason to have a conversation about this so we never find out
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the basic issue with all this of course is that as you push the semantic load out of the text, you unavoidably push it onto your readers' shared background assumptions which are maybe less universal than Naturalist Prose Style Evangelists want to admit
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like what even counts as "naturalistic" vs. "overly explained" vs. "unintelligible" just winds up varying by reader crack open one of sriduangkaew's books and she'll drop a dozen references and ideas on you that are likely meaningless to the average white western reader
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