"I think of myself more as a guestage."

I am so sleepy. This will be sho-

Oh. Wait.

Friday, I worked on a time-travel thingy that made my head spin. I've said it before, and I will say it again, many, many times, until everyone gets really irritated and fed up and leaves: Writing is hard. Don't try it at home, kids.

Thing is, I'm concerned with a stupid little thing called "internal logic". I hate it when things don't make sense within the context of its world. Like when they blow the computer-stuff on 24 (the show, not the number). How hard would it be to get it right, I wonder? (He said mockingly.) Not very. Just call up someone who's actually touched a computer that's not a Mac, and a program that's not a screenwriting program. That might help. You think?

So when you're working on a story about time-travel, that in itself may not be completely logical, because, hey!, no such thing. Yet. But even if it doesn't exist in our reality, it does in another reality, and in that reality the concept has to have internal logic. The pieces have to fit together. You can't cheat. This is a Golden Rule. Cheating is bad. You may call it 'fantasy' or 'science-fiction', but if your fantasy or science lack internal logic and consistency, if it doesn't feel real, coherent, true to the rules of your universe - then it's not good writing. Even fairytales are perfectly logical, within their fairytale worlds.

Sleep no-

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