So, It’s The End of The World
29 Aug
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So, today the world is ending for like the billionth time. Fire is raining from the sky, demons or monsters are flooding the world, the earth is splitting, the sun is exploding, the oceans are rising, blah blah blah. The More important question is why. Why are all these things happening. Is it magical? Is it scientific?
Who doesn’t like a good doomsday book. I know I do, but I want some substance for my last few hours on Earth. I’ve read so many novels that face the extinction of all life on Earth and most of them seem to lack any real explanation as to why we’re facing the end of days. It’s not a difficult question to answer, but some stories seem to settle with simply saying “that’s just how it is.” Unacceptable.
If you have a super villain trying to destroy the world there had better be a very good reason why he’s trying to destroy the world. That was something I could never understand in the hero and villain apocalypse set up. There never seemed to be any real reason for the end of the world. Other than the fact that the bad guy was bad and all bad guys want to destroy the world. For a story to connect to the reader there needs to be something that makes sense. What deep psychological reason is there that causes this character to want to destroy everything.
If we’re facing a global natural disaster kind of end of the world there needs to be some moderately believable scientific basis in it. We see stories about all the volcanoes on earth erupting at once or massive earthquakes all over the world and I always ask why. And unexplainable scientific events really don’t fly with me. Cataclysmic natural disasters like that have warning signs. Research is required for this sort of end of the world. What’s a little research to an amazingly good story?
These are just two examples. The main point in this is simple. If you’re writing a story or novel on the world coming to a devastating end, make it seem real. Have possible reasons that the reader can believe. If you ever have an issue where you have trouble understanding why the world is ending then examine the situation. Look at the characters and follow the trail backwards to what is causing the conflict that is creating the apocalyptic event. Happy endings.


I only really learned how to properly use semi-colons a few years ago. Plus, I’m not sure if we actually ever covered it in school, but I certainly know I went a long time without knowing what “comma splice” meant either. So it’s not much of a surprise to me when I see a lot of writers (journalists, published authors, young writers, etc.) misuse commas and semi-colons.