Plot and character are in some ways the commodity elements of fiction, and how-to books spend 90% of their words on those. But good genre fiction usually seems to center a non-basic element: LOTR: fake languages Culture: names of ships Star Trek: species This seems important.
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Yeah Tolkien explicitly said that he wrote the stories as a vehicle for the languages not vice versa
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This quote from T.S. Eliot about poetic meaning seems related, just s/poem/story/ and s/'meaning'/character and plot/pic.twitter.com/RBCxzDfjcD
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