Supergirl8666
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So, a thought came to me in class the other day, and i've since expanded it. I've decided to share it, mainly because I'm curious about everyone's responses to it.
When they write, an author knows what they are saying - relating to plots and ideas. In the end, a good author knows all the details of their story - or have an complex image of it.
Sure, an author could bullshit their way through a couple scenes that make sense, but that's when they're still vague in their own knowledge about a topic - such as about their depths of undertanding regarding legalities or medicational occupations. You need at least a basic understanding of both these topics (and others) to write about them.
Do you think a basic understanding is needed to write these scenes? Or should an author go beyond basic, into a bit more depth of their own understanding? How much understanding does a writer need to accuratly write these scenes? Or would the bare minimum count, and bullshitting do the rest?
Anyway, this moves onto my next point of thought.
Since authors already know what needs to be in their own writing, it leads to the level of detail they need to incorperate. An author knows EVERYTHING about the specific scene or plot they are creating.
They know the characters, the events, settings and so on. They don't need to know everything about the world - they only reveal a small portion of it. But the parts they do show, already specified, are known to the author. Basically, the writer knows all these details - whether this is before, during or after writing. Authors, writers, know these details, and so the level of detail within the writing is important.
It needs to be acknowledged that the readers are not the writers. Hence, in this way, the readers don't know everything like the authors. They are left with only what has been written to imagine the world - or concept - being created.
LordCosmosProtaBeing
@Supergirl8666 This is a very interesting topic. In my opinion, it depends how important the scene is to the book and how important the book is to the author. The more important the scene the more the author should know about the topic. The more important the book, the more the author should know about the topics in the book. The level of detail that someone likes could be completely different to what someone else likes. So you can't cater to everyone. But what to you do? In my opinion asking your audience a simple question or two about the level of detail and what they liked/disliked about the chapter. Then you can learn what your audience likes. Don't change your style of writing for your audience though! Your personal flair is why people read your books. As you said, the author knows everything that happens in all of the scenes in their story. I think the sign of a good author is an author who gets that knowledge of the scene across to the reader in an immersive and interesting way.
Supergirl8666
@WIldman98 I hope you know i'll be pestering you about if i've got enough detail with sections moving forwards.
