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Originally Posted by William F
To be blunt, no. I'm not a visual artist, I'm a storyteller. My contribution to society is to take people to a world that exists purely in the imagination via words. It's a collaborative effort that requires me to give the readers enough information to allow their own imagination to fill in the blanks, without forcing them lock step into my personal vision.
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I certainly wish you'd remind some of your brothers in arms about the "collaborative effort" part. Because one of my favorite genres is going down the toilet (for me anyway) because of a rising trend in authors who feel the need to micromanage my experience of their personal vision under the guise of "world-building." It's like they're afraid I'll get their vision "wrong" or something. My imagination gets pissed when the author tries to do everything for it.