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I wanted to write a horror book about a mathematical formula, but my plot is completely off-track because I decided to do some world-building, and inadvertedly started writing 5 chapters about somone's experience of the afterlife
how do I fix this, do I just suddenly cut to the horror part with no explanation?

>> No.23044920

>>23044914
>worldbuilding
ngmi

>> No.23044926

>>23044914
just write it the way you like, then edit out the parts that seem unnecessary

>> No.23044929

>>23044914
Maybe just stick with the afterlife stuff and save the math horror for another time?

>> No.23044954

>>23044929
hmm yes, this is what I'll do

>> No.23045692

>>23044914
A horror book about a mathematical formula sounds more interesting than someone's afterlife. I would say drop the afterlife stuff and focus on the killer formula, it should be the star of the book.

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23045894

>>23044914
>he didn't plan it all out beforehand
The fate of Gurm awaits.

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23045944

Just make sure you're not retreading the ground that Charles Stross already tread. "The Laundry Files" is a series that merges Lovecraftian horror, computers/mathematics, and bureaucracy.

>> No.23046319 [DELETED] 

>>23044914
>equation of the crocodile

>> No.23046333

>>23046319
Fuck off, Frank.

>> No.23047122

>>23045944
that sounds exactly like what im doing, or was going to do before I got off-track
Ill go ahead and read it, not only for research but because it sounds intriguing

>> No.23047134

>>23044914

Sounds like a page 1 rewrite to me.

I agree with another poster, a horror book about a math formula sounds interesting, 5 chapters about the afterlife sounds like the most boring possible thing in the world.

There is actually lots of interesting times people had to do math with really dark consequences like the obvious nuclear bomb stuff or the meetings planning the holocaust etc etc. In fact its a whole field in medical research too, ie add machine x that saves 5 lives but cost $2 million dollars, should you add it to the hospital?
It applies in tons of fields from designing roads, planes, etc etc

You could easily make something interesting about somebody in one of these fields working on these types of equations, and something about it going wrong. I would read it.

>> No.23048127

>>23044914

is that you jrr tolkien?