Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26116863-20160311233650/@comment-26532022-20160427003038

However, I do want to jump in on the "weight of the author's quill" discussion quickly. The reason Isacc was trapped in the storybook was because he was going willy-nilly with what he wrote. Sure, you can write something on a whim, but should you? Other people have brought up R.L.Stien's Goosebumps, and while I can't pretend to have read those books, I'll still run off what I've heard them say about it.

So, the plot in question is about bringing back to life all the previously fought Goosebumps enimies, right? Sure, we can jump straight into the battle, with little explination as to why, but that's not a smart idea. The greatest limits an author can have are the ones he himself puts. Having written stuff, I can say this for a fact. There are certain things you may want to do as the person who controls the story, like put two people together, or kill someone just because, but you shouldn't do it for fundemental storywriting reasons that a writer must understand walking into this.

Isacc wasn't like that. He put no limits on himself, and got very very greedy with what he could do with the quill, as seen by Cruella and 'literally rewriting the universe. 'Now, I do believe there are some things not even the quill can do, such as mind control and necromancy. Aside from that, the quill is god-like, as it can physically interfere with how a person's body functions. (TBH, Isacc was a bad choice overall.)

So, I think that's why no one evil, (shown, that is, Isacc nonwithstanding) has been given the role of author. People with good hearts know better than to interfere with the stories they are keeping track of, and are more trustworthy than selfish people like Isacc.