#quantum writing

[puppyboywinger]

me when i write mid!!!

i knew i said i was gonna write a trobed fic and I STILL AM IM WORKING ON IT RN i just… already had half of this written…. then something Posessed me….. it’s a slow start but i have plans i swear!!

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[puppyboywinger]

BACK on my bullshit? how dare you make the assertion that i ever left…

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ALIENIST MANIFESTOS

[runval]

Listen or a case of quantum writing or did the monster catch Sherlock?

I suppose you all know what Scrödinger's cat is. We close a cat in a box with a poison. Until we open the box to see, if the cat is alive or dead, it's in a state of both. However classically we think that it's either dead or not, but certainly not both.

Literature works in a similar way. The writer hides the cat. Then the writer tells the audience about the cat, the poison, the cat's lovelife and political ambitions, then the writer shows if the cat's alive or dead. There's a reveal and the story ends.

There are some variations to this. One thing is common: the cat is dead or alive. The story has to conclude. It causes immense aggression when a setup has no payoff and the writer's blamed with incompetence or laziness.

Moffat realised we live in a time when presenting different possibilities and then not concluding them is actually a brilliant idea. We live in a golden age of fandoms, where mad speculation might be more rewarding than actually finding out the truth.

Keeping the cat alive and dead at the same time.

Of course, not everybody accepts this bold, new way of writing. They usually force the cat into one state and say how stupid it was of Moffat to do this.  He was also criticized for his previous, inferior tries.

Listen perfects quantum writing. There are two options presented, we expect the one, because we're used to this option, but when it concludes in perfect superposition we question everything that was ever suggested to us (like is Clara really Orson's ancestor?). With this brave new idea and a lot of excellent moffatisms Listen is one of Doctor Who's best stories.

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