TheUnburnt
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Backstory: she's a girl, she's deadly, she's been 'imprisoned' in her mind for the first fifteen years of her life. now, for the first time, she wakes up.
Question: how realistic (or cliche?!) is the idea of 'waking up' to reality after living in your head (with a character specifically crafted by her captors to challenge her logically, linguistically, etc.)? She will be feeling herself and experiencing textures, smells, sounds for the first time. Speaking out loud for the first time. Physically moving for the first time. All in the first chapter. All before she reacts with dangerous magic that triggers the plot, yada yada. As readers, would you accept the author not spending pages describing the sensations, the internalization, but instead flinging the character into the hurricane? any words of advice or insight for approaching this? thanks in advance!!
Question: how realistic (or cliche?!) is the idea of 'waking up' to reality after living in your head (