Realistic novels simply pretend that the rules of their invented worlds are identical to the rules of actual life, but that's a ruse.
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You write a novel by inventing a world and inventing the rules that govern that world. Then you break the rules when you want to.
More often than not, real life is so rich, complex and unpredictable that it would seem completely implausible in the pages of a novel.
Real life is far more complicated than fiction.
It's about living in a world with rules, or a world without rules.
Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairytale artist.
Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings standards that no one they know in real life could possibly meet.
Real life is crazier than fiction.
Unlike the actual, the fictional explains itself.
Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens.
That's one thing about fiction: you can make the world be the way you think it should be.