![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
super setting
May. 3rd, 2022 11:20 pmWas reading "how-to" advice on how to write a superhero story.
A lot of it neglected the world-building. In all senses. It did not discuss how the supers would affect the world -- though it does seem to be a trope that the answer is "not at all" even when you have super-inventors -- but it also did not discuss how the super-world is constructed. Not even at the base level of assuming that you have a standard ripoff of DC/Marvel where there are masses of superheroes and supervillains and much crime and crime fighting involved. . . .
( Read more... )
A lot of it neglected the world-building. In all senses. It did not discuss how the supers would affect the world -- though it does seem to be a trope that the answer is "not at all" even when you have super-inventors -- but it also did not discuss how the super-world is constructed. Not even at the base level of assuming that you have a standard ripoff of DC/Marvel where there are masses of superheroes and supervillains and much crime and crime fighting involved. . . .
( Read more... )