What's important for me is variety, especially if some of the variety is background stuff the characters take for granted. It's difficult, because too much detailed variety in the background makes it hard for me to follow the story. (A Song of Ice and Fire does this--yes, the world is closer to world-scale than city-scale, but I can't hold it in my head enough to really follow it anymore.)
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Date: 2012-06-19 04:38 pm (UTC)