When You're Writing About Smart People
and you notice something they could do to blow your plotline up, do you
1) Ignore it and hope people don't notice because what you want to do is cool
2) Paper it over with some nonsense nobody is really going to believe and proceed. Because cool
or
3) Fix it and come up with something else
I was coming to the end of a story I had planned and asked myself, "Why wouldn't one of them just do X?"
The challenge is now to come up with something as cool as the original idea.


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Logical failures (straw man, ad hominem, red herring, etcetera) will be pointed out - and I hope you'll point out any such errors I make as well. If there's something you don't understand, ask.
Nonetheless, the idea of comments should be constructive. Aim them at the issue, not the individual. Consider it a challenge to make your criticism constructive. Try to be respectful. Those who make a habit of trollish behavior will be banned.
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