Internal Realism
I was watching this guy on YouTube who does a lot of movie critiques when I noticed that he had a video about Skyrim, a game I like. The actual content of the video was about verisimilitude which I found to be rather a pompous word for what amounts to internal realism. It's the idea that a world has to follow whatever rules it has. The video goes on to talk about how failing to establish this concept pulls you out of the game. This struck a chord with me because I have been feeling this dissatisfaction with the game for a while and just watching that video, I felt so much vindication. Where one might assume I would talk more about how the internal realism of the magic in the game does not work and amounts to little more than another way to kill your enemies, I will now turn to my attention to writing. While watching the video, I came to the realization that I have been trying to do the same thing with a relatively new writing project of mine, a Harry Potter sequel. A lot of worl