{"id":12348,"date":"2015-04-16T01:00:23","date_gmt":"2015-04-16T08:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/?p=12348"},"modified":"2015-04-12T07:53:12","modified_gmt":"2015-04-12T14:53:12","slug":"finding-reality-in-an-unreal-world-by-kay-keppler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/16\/finding-reality-in-an-unreal-world-by-kay-keppler\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding Reality in an Unreal World by Kay Keppler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1FwDXpW\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1FwDXpW\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-12229\" title=\"Loving Lucy by Kay Keppler\" src=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/KayKeppler_LovingLucy-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"Loving Lucy by Kay Keppler\" width=\"200\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/KayKeppler_LovingLucy-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/KayKeppler_LovingLucy-300x448.jpg 300w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/KayKeppler_LovingLucy.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nLet\u2019s\u00a0welcome\u00a0back monthly columnist Kay Keppler as she shares with us about \u201cFinding Reality in an Unreal World.\u201d\u00a0<em>Enjoy!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m working on a story in which my protagonist is on an unpaid leave from the CIA. The story concerns an unlikely adventure she engages in during this off time, and the way she handles it helps her to decide if the CIA is the right career choice for her. In a beta read, a friend pointed out that my character could face serious consequences\u2014even prison\u2014merely for making a phone call that wasn\u2019t over a secure channel. While my friend does not work for the CIA, she knows people who do, and I had to sit down and think about the limits of realism in my story. If my friend did not believe my premise, would anybody else?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Credibility for readers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My go-to example for credibility is always the film <em>ET<\/em>. Did I think that alien was real? I sure did. Did I believe those kids got on their bikes and rode into the sky? You bet I did. So can my character make a phone call that doesn\u2019t land her in the clink? What does \u201ccredibility\u201d mean in the world of fiction?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Every story begins with a \u201cwhat if\u201d situation that would be hard to believe in real life:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What if a small-town waitress with telepathic powers fell in love with a vampire? (<em>Dead until Dark<\/em> by Charlaine Harris)<\/li>\n<li>What if a home-loving <a title=\"hobbit\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hobbit\" target=\"_blank\">hobbit<\/a> goes on a quest to find the treasure guarded by a <a title=\"dragon\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dragon_(Middle-earth)\" target=\"_blank\">dragon<\/a>? (<em>The Hobbit<\/em>, by J.R.R. Tolkein)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Even novels that seem grounded in reality, or that are based on true stories, have a \u201cwhat-if\u201d scenario:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What if an early, slave-owning president of the United States fell in love with a slave? (<em>Sally Hemings<\/em>, by Barbara Chase-Riboud)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>What happens in the nineteenth century when an expert in the burgeoning field of mental illness seeks a pardon for a woman convicted of murdering her employer and his housekeeper and mistress? (<em>Alias Grace,<\/em> by Margaret Atwood)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Fantasy first<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Readers pick up a book for its fantasy element. They want to go to interesting places and meet interesting people in the pages or pixels you write. Remember the first rule of fiction: your story has to be better than real life.<\/p>\n<p>But the corollary is equally important: whatever you make up has to be true at its core.<\/p>\n<p>For example, if I said I lived in a small town, had telepathic powers, and was in love with a vampire, you\u2019d have serious doubts about my sanity. But if you picked up Charlaine Harris\u2019s Sookie Stackhouse series, you\u2019d accept that the actions and characters in the stories, while real to the book, wouldn\u2019t happen in real life.<\/p>\n<p><strong>More than a world<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To enjoy the book\u2014to believe the story premise or fantasy\u2014you need more than a make-believe world. You need to know the inner truths of the characters. Your characters\u2019 actions in response to the story premise must be reasonable, justified, and believable in the world you\u2019ve created. They need to follow its rules.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the mechanics. How they react to that world is what makes your story memorable.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Add the emotion<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s go back to the small-town waitress with telepathic powers who\u2019s in love with a vampire. Because her conflicts focus on small towns, waitressing, telepathy, and vampires, readers believe that world because it\u2019s consistent. And because Sookie is brave, kind, and helpful in a world of paranormal phenomena, and her reactions to her situation demonstrate her courage, the series became a best-seller.<\/p>\n<p>But if Charlaine Harris had added a time-traveling best friend, dinosaur attack, and rescue by aliens who arrive on a boat captained by SEAL Team 6, most readers probably would have lost interest. That world is unbelievable, precisely because anything goes. It has no rules. And when anything goes, it\u2019s hard for readers to find the story thread\u2014and it\u2019s impossible for an author to give characters depth.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, your readers won\u2019t believe you.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Now what?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So what about my character who\u2019s on leave from the CIA, who really should not under any circumstances make a call that\u2019s not on a secure channel? For now, although her best friend warns her not to, she does so anyway, thus demonstrating her unfitness for the job. Will readers believe that? I\u2019ll find out after the next revision pass\u2014and beta read.<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<h2>ABOUT THE AUTHOR<\/h2>\n<p><a title=\"Kay Keppler\" href=\"www.kaykeppler.com\" target=\"_blank\">KayKeppler\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"www.kaykeppler.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"www.kaykeppler.com\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-9691\" title=\"Kay Keppler\" src=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Kay-Keppler_31.jpg\" alt=\"Kay Keppler\" width=\"150\" height=\"216\" \/><\/a>\u00a0is an author\u00a0<a title=\"Zero Gravity Outcasts\" href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1rqW2wW\" target=\"_blank\">Zero Gravity Outcasts<\/a>, \u00a0<a title=\"Betting on Hope\" href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1l42nc4\" target=\"_blank\">Betting on Hope<\/a>,\u00a0\u00a0<a title=\"Gargoyle: Three Enchanting Romance Novellas\" href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1pEPjjq\" target=\"_blank\">Gargoyle: Three Enchanting Romance Novellas<\/a>, and editor of fiction and nonfiction \u2013<a title=\"Angel\u2019s Kiss\" href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1nylmgE\" target=\"_blank\">Angel\u2019s Kiss<\/a>\u00a0and Outsource It! She lives in northern California. Contact her here at Writer\u2019s Fun Zone in the comments below, or at\u00a0<a title=\"kaykeppler@yahoo.com\" href=\"mailto:kaykeppler@yahoo.com\" target=\"_blank\">kaykeppler@yahoo.com<\/a>\u00a0to ask questions, suggest topics, or if you prefer, complain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m working on a story in which my protagonist is on an unpaid leave from the CIA. The story concerns an unlikely adventure she engages in during this off time, and the way she handles it helps her to decide if the CIA is the right career choice for her. 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