I was just thinking something similar: if there is a system of magic, an engine of fate, a soulmate for everyone in the worlds my characters live in, I draw the boundaries of those, but of course they don't know that. Fiction has to follow rules reality can get away with cheating, unless the point of a story is supposed to be that everything's random or futile. And I've never understood the drive to write stories like that. (I could go on a rant about those stories, in fact, but I'll spare you. :))
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I was just thinking something similar: if there is a system of magic, an engine of fate, a soulmate for everyone in the worlds my characters live in, I draw the boundaries of those, but of course they don't know that. Fiction has to follow rules reality can get away with cheating, unless the point of a story is supposed to be that everything's random or futile. And I've never understood the drive to write stories like that. (I could go on a rant about those stories, in fact, but I'll spare you. :))