Facts

Facts are like the fabrics of reality for any world-building in a story. With a proper set of facts, a really strong and immersive experience can be created for the readers. The worst thing that can happen, is that your created world is either very boring, or just full of plotholes and unrealistic to the point that readers don't enjoy it.

Facts can include something very fundamental aspects of the world like, how the people in the world are? Does Magic exists? What are the important institutions and personalities that exist in this world and how they interact with other people? It also includes information about what are the circumstances for our characters, if there exists any power system then that also comes under facts.

For example, The Classic Dragon Knight Princess story, In a far away lands there was a prosperous kingdom .The king had a beautiful daughter and they lived in a magnificent castle. Princess liked to go on picnics.There lived a Dragon far from the kingdom and he loved Gold.One day he kidnaps Princess during one of her picnics. Many Royal Guards tried but failed miserably to save the princess.Then a brave knight went to save the princess he fought hard and managed to save the princess. This is an example of a simple story but with each sentence you will see that we more and more about their world and characters.Hence, just by mentioning a few sentences we are getting the complete story.Even though the story above is complete it is not fully fleshed out. We can go into great detail by mentioning the action and by adding more details about the Dragon and more dialogues in this story. And the more in dept we try to go the more we will know and feel invested in the story, the story becomes engaging, But remember how does the knight defeat the mighty dragon now this is a really interesting part that can make or break this story. We want to make our knight Brave and Smart but we also don't want to make other soldiers obviously stupid.

As much as facts help in defining how the world in story operates giving readers reason to like it. A complicated World building without properly maintaing the facts can give an unsatisfying experience to the reader.For example, you show that a character has this useful weapon or technique and he forgets to use it.Here the writer might have forgotten about the weapon or simply wants to limit the character to increase drama in the story.

Remember that facts are like rules for how a world in story behaves.It's completely fine to change the rules to create new interactions among characters and change dynamics of a story but we must consider how will the reader feel about it.

As time passes in the story the number of facts in any given story will always keep on increasing. And this facts will give chances for our characters to use and take advantage of. Maybe brave knight knew something nobody else did, maybe he had some magical powers and so on.

As a general rule of thumb, always try to keep your story simple yet engaging. That is, keep the facts to the minimum while ensuring that they are fully expressing what you want to say through the story. We can always describe a character completely from his cap to his clothes and shoes and how he walks and it brings life into the character.

We will see different types of facts and how they work in different story situations.

(I will update this chapter and add even more detail into it in the future.

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