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Usage examples of backgrounds.

I have seen manuscript after manuscript in which the writer is trying to deal with situations and backgrounds that he knows absolutely nothing about.

They tend to fall back on the well-trodden backgrounds and ideas from the stories that they read when they were young and impressionable.

All those weird backgrounds and fantastic ideas, all those special ingredients of science fiction, are a set of tricks that writers use to place their characters in the desperate situations where they will have to do their very best, or their very worst, to survive.

All too often writers tend to fall back on standard backgrounds that were fresh and exciting a couple of generations ago, but have become stale and trite today.

She had been creating backgrounds for as long as the compu-drama technique had existed.

More than the backgrounds and settings and mechanical props, it is the people who make novels vivid and enthralling.

If you want to make the reader believe what you are saying, if you want the reader to accept those fantastic backgrounds and incredible deeds, it is easier if the prose you use is as simple and realistic as you can make it.