Thanks fam , I ' ll give it my all . I wish you and your family the best too ! Save some turkey for me okAND I WANT TURKEY , NOT turkey SANDWHICHES <| sep |> It ' s definitely a fun reward system , but ' best ' is subjective if you calculate what the actual monetary gain is . <| sep |> Themes are important , plot not so much . You can ' t have a good story without both . Plot holes sink the sturdiest themes . Plot is the steel girders around which you build the story . Without plot , the story will be a pile of rubble . This depends entirely on your presentation , which should be carefully controlled to produce the effects you want . There ' s no reason to assume what the reader will assume . Humans are patternmatchers . It ' s how we learn . It is unreasonable to assume that readers will not ask wait a minute , he solved a similar problem with magic ten pages ago , whats the big fuss now ? . The only way to prevent that question and the loss of suspension of disbelief is to make sure the reader understands why magic won ' t work this time . Which is Sanderson ' s first law . And no one will ever consider this if you present it in a certain way . No one will think of economy in the middle of a fairytale . It ' s not the focus . I would . Unless by present in a certain way you mean explain to the reader why . If your story is not internally plausible , you ' ve lost me as a reader .