What do you like to do with them? Some people ignore them entirely. I personally love to build a reason why the plot hole exists. Building onto the world and setting in the background to make sense of everything. What about you?

  • LeGaosaure@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    9 months ago

    I don’t think I’ve ever written for something where I saw plot holes, but as a reader I love it when authors build on the hole to explain that in fact there was never a hole with their own spin to the worldbuilding/plot! I tend to call that “Timothy Zahn-ing” because my first exposure to that kind of stuff was through his Star Wars (official) novels, but I’ve seen fanfic authors do that too and it’s really pleasant ♥

    • a_mac_and_con@kbin.socialOP
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      9 months ago

      I don’t often see or hear about the people working on canon addressing such things. I’m glad there are people doing it officially! It is another thing I love: when people think something is a plot hole, but the creator addresses it later. And it’s obviously not a hurried attempt to paper it over, because you can see all the evidence that they had this planned the entire time.

      However, most of the time fans address it instead. I love the creativity it brings.