In a universe where vampires fall in love with Slayers and nerds build sexbots, the only type of realism to be found is emotional
That's a very good point.
There's also the difference between realistic and believable--the setting of Rome, to use your example, isn't realistic, but if you write it as it is in the series it will be believable within that context.
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Date: 2007-09-03 11:06 pm (UTC)That's a very good point.
There's also the difference between realistic and believable--the setting of Rome, to use your example, isn't realistic, but if you write it as it is in the series it will be believable within that context.