WRITING 7/9/12
Jul. 9th, 2012 03:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sidhe_faerieINCORPORATING REALISM
Well I try of course to keep as close to the canon of a fandom or the setting of the story as I can. That being said it depends on the story or fandom itself as to how much reality it calls for.
Star trek comes to mind for the most need of technology and science. I actually keep a ‘manual’ for the warp drive on my shelf for reference. The other items change appearance with each incarnation but they are basically the same. How can you write a story in the engine room without talking about the warp drive? How do you go on away missions without tricorders or transporters? It’s a very technology driven fandom.
My Merlin stories have basic medicine in them sometimes. Gaius does use the ‘scientific method’ in his work. Merlin is sometimes a doctor in my modern stories and Gwen (Guinevere) is a nurse.
Once Upon A Time is a modern story with enchanted elements so modern day technology is needed when the story is in the modern world. The Enchanted Realm has medieval elements so there isn’t much there.
In my own Faerie stories I don’t use much technology as I do magick. I suppose that is a ‘technology’ of sorts. There just isn’t much in the story’s universe. Magick tends to have its own set of scientific rules.
Some other stories I may mention technology but it isn’t a focal point of the story.
As for realism, it’s all as relative as the story. If the story calls for it then it is of course added. I see it as layer of the setting. There is the description of the place and then there is the atmosphere it contains. In that atmosphere is where any realism lies.