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Do I remove this concept from my book or not?
Ok, so I'm writing a Cyberpunk dystopian novel right now. In the book, there is this important substance called Arkor. It's a plasma-like material made of sentient cells. It's used by the corporations as an amazing power source, fuel for implants, or tools. This obviously is a huge deal and takes up a lot of space, but that's the issue. It has to constantly be brought up to make sense, which just disrupts the flow of any sentence and feels too shoehorned in. It's almost like bad made-up slang, but worse because it has to be there. It detracts from the cyberpunk setting, but I like the concept, and a lot of the current story hinges on it, making it difficult to rewrite. What should I do?
u/FuelImaginary7610 — 7 days ago