If you're writing fantasy or science fiction, it's really hard to do if you don't know a lot, at least in a basic way, about how the real world works.
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The real world is the fantasy writer's scrapbook. Real history, real geography, real customs and religions are all invaluable sources of guidance and inspiration.
Fantasy is totally wide open; all you really have to do is follow the rules you've set. But if you're writing about science, you have to first learn what you're writing about.
Real life is far more complicated than fiction.
Having spent so much time in a fictional world, I prefer to read about the real world.
I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality.
Doing science fiction at a high level is tricky. It's really tricky.
All fiction relies on the real world in the sense that we all take in the world through our five senses and we accumulate details, consciously or subconsciously. This accumulation of detail can be drawn on when you write fiction.
I really can't write fantasy. I cannot invent a world which does not exist. And I can't read fantasy either. As soon as I realise I'm reading a book that hasn't got its roots in a reality I can comprehend, I switch off.
Doing real world projects is, I think, the best way to learn and also to engage the world and find out what the world is all about.
You learn a lot, writing fiction.
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