Same with nonfiction. If you’re writing a cryptography paper, “Alice” and “Bob” will do. They’re even expected. Or just “user” or “customer” in other kinds of writing. In fiction, you do have to come up with an apt-enough name that it feels like a story about a person.
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The thing is, vast design spaces are scary and distressing to experience. They channel the vast indifference of the universe. It’s like a total perspective vortex. Opinionated design cuts that vast dimensionality a bit and makes you feel a bit more at home in the universe.
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Think of it as personalizing reality for humanity, and manifesting abundance, by caring to bind variables you don’t have to. Hero’s name, dress style, mannerisms, backstory — if you don’t bind *some* subset of it you’ve created a nonfiction role, not a livable story.
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You can’t, and shouldn’t aim to, make designed realities as rich as naturally evolved realities. That’s how you get to overwrought/baroque. You should also leave room in design for future growth/complexification etc. But this doesn’t necessarily look a certain way.
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