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Scene

Literature; Fiction

The basic dramatic sub-unit — an interaction involving one or more focus characters. Scenes are usually ended by the announcement that time has passed ('a week later'), by a termination of the ...

The habit of describing things only after they've figured in the action, never before they're used. "She dodged behind the boulder that she'd just seen out of the corner of her eye." The effect on ...

Reader surrogate

Literature; Fiction

A focus character who voices or experiences the thoughts, reactions and emotions which the author desires the reader to have. Usually the point-of-view character, usually observing a scene or being ...

Cosmic horror

Literature; Fiction

A subgenre of science fiction horror in which the world around the protagonist is filled with indifferent and overwhelming evil. A major element of cosmic horror is that any investigation into the ...

Body horror

Literature; Fiction

A type of horror characterised by growths, distortions, decay, or mutilations of the body. Examples can include genetic mutation, fusing of technology with the body, bodily functions, disease, rot, ...

Clever-author syndrome

Literature; Fiction

Where an author shows off with some literary fireworks — ten-dollar vocabulary, obscure references, overly artful constructions — which remind us how smart the author is but detract from the ...

Conflict

Literature; Fiction

The opposition of forces between focus characters and their surroundings: either other focus characters or 'natural forces' (which include, in addition to the elements, peripheral characters). One ...