Jo Walton, an sf writer, spent quite a while trying to explain that she couldn’t write a story until she knew what the mode for it was, and she just couldn’t get the idea across, though it seemed to be something like a concept of what would fit in the story and what wouldn’t.
Then Lucas came up with midichlorians, and all she had to say was that midichlorians didn’t fit the mode of Star Wars.
Midichlorians are good for something.
Jo Walton, an sf writer, spent quite a while trying to explain that she couldn’t write a story until she knew what the mode for it was, and she just couldn’t get the idea across, though it seemed to be something like a concept of what would fit in the story and what wouldn’t.
Then Lucas came up with midichlorians, and all she had to say was that midichlorians didn’t fit the mode of Star Wars.