Hmm, I think that the later the question occurs, the less specificity is needed, because the constraints (in a very loose sense) have already been established through the earlier parts.
Like, for example, if it were established that I was in a small cabin in the woods that I had wandered into while hiking, or in my kitchen making a cup of tea, or trying to land my spaceship on a new planet, the question A ghost upsets something essential. How do you recover? has more context - "something essential" is constrained by the setting to a smaller universe of possibilities (or likelihoods, at least, depending on my imagination).
And actually your last paragraph is interesting to me, because my immediate reaction is, huh, I think that grabbing the first thing that comes up, for me, would tend to trap me in cliche instead of letting me take the leap. But really I think my brain would just go around in circles, confused. And I also expect that practice helps - that your experience with what happens when you trust your story-instincts has shaped your ability to do so, that you see multiple fairy bridges across the chasm while I'm searching for a tree or something I can knock down to cross on.
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Date: 2022-01-12 05:12 pm (UTC)Like, for example, if it were established that I was in a small cabin in the woods that I had wandered into while hiking, or in my kitchen making a cup of tea, or trying to land my spaceship on a new planet, the question has more context - "something essential" is constrained by the setting to a smaller universe of possibilities (or likelihoods, at least, depending on my imagination).
And actually your last paragraph is interesting to me, because my immediate reaction is, huh, I think that grabbing the first thing that comes up, for me, would tend to trap me in cliche instead of letting me take the leap. But really I think my brain would just go around in circles, confused. And I also expect that practice helps - that your experience with what happens when you trust your story-instincts has shaped your ability to do so, that you see multiple fairy bridges across the chasm while I'm searching for a tree or something I can knock down to cross on.