It's entirely possible to get to the end of an arc-y epic and suddenly -- all the characters get married! Even the minor ones! To each other! Even if they've never met!! And the ones who don't get married join convents or die!!!
So, yes. By "rich world" I think I mean that lives are not all tied up in a bow and neatened to the point of ending. That they continue to have texture and conflict, both on the page and projectable into the future and past tenses.
(Ironically, coffeeandink and I discuss this occasionally and like to say that a good fic universe is a universe that's incoherent -- which is a less-flattering way of saying that it leaves enough texture lying around that we can make something of it. Kind of two different ways to look at the same ficability.)
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Date: 7/19/07 02:23 am (UTC)So, yes. By "rich world" I think I mean that lives are not all tied up in a bow and neatened to the point of ending. That they continue to have texture and conflict, both on the page and projectable into the future and past tenses.
(Ironically,