I'm writing a fantasy setting book, and I really can't come up with a name for what the magical spaces of the world would be called by someone actually living there. Physically speaking, they're a distortion in space that magic gathers towards, with a whole "bigger on the inside" thing going on...
A big point about writing is only including the important, relevant stuff. Nine times out of ten, when an author brings up a character pooping, I, as a reader, interpret this as either a crass attempt at toilet humor or their weird scat fetish. It carries the same rules as real social situations...
I have similar issues with RR and how they seem to love sticking the "LGBTQ+" descriptor onto their books. Like, that's about two dozen tags rolled into one and it doesn't tell me anything about your book. If the MC is gay, then put it in the description.
In my experience as a reader, the death scene has been done a thousand times and everyone's already seen it before. Skip the death itself and just show what happens afterwards with the narrator or character referring to the event in past tense.
This is all assuming that the events surrounding...
I agree, It's so excessive and over-the-top that it makes the world less believable, but in turn more entertaining to watch. It's more about "what are they going to come up with next" than anything else.
I think it's more important for things to be consistent and explained well enough. If you break the rules of our normal reality, make sure the audience understands the new rules so that they don't get blindsided. That aside, I prefer the less grounded stuff because I like the fantasy of the...