Finchbearer
Istar
Real life is indeed stranger than fiction.
It was more a response to pmmg saying ‘The world is full of superfluous people.’
In fiction we get to curate and create the readers viewpoint to any greater or lesser extent. In a city, unless there is a zombie apocalypse, we as the reader are going to assume there are other people there, but as writers we get to choose how much we describe that, and to what extent characters become characters at all.
It was more a response to pmmg saying ‘The world is full of superfluous people.’
In fiction we get to curate and create the readers viewpoint to any greater or lesser extent. In a city, unless there is a zombie apocalypse, we as the reader are going to assume there are other people there, but as writers we get to choose how much we describe that, and to what extent characters become characters at all.