I never said a person with a lower IQ could not write a story that didn't have plot holes.Just because they don't have a 200 IQ doesn't mean they don't have the diligence and planning to not have plot holes.
What I did say is if a person with a lower IQ tries to write from the perspective of someone much more intelligent it will create pot holes it is unavoidable. Because they don't think the same.
Give me an example. Give an example of what you consider a big scheme and what issues you think there are as a writer you need to cover.If the intelligent character pulls off a great scheme that awes the audience, do they have the time to think about a Big Brain like you?
To give you a hint blackmail is a little scheme. If you look at all the games that use it there is a 100% failure rate in avoiding plot holes when it comes to adult games.
0.1 to 0.2% or 1 in every 1000 to 2000 has my level of intelligence.Statistically speaking how many people do have a big brain friend like you?
That isn't that special. I know guys who make me feel like an idiot.
I went to school with a guy who wasn't just smart but he had an eidetic memory to boot.
He was probably 20 IQ above me.
If you look at generals throughout history all the ones who were successful and strategies are taught and studied today were smart. Many if not most were also smart outside of military and politics as well.And in the first place does being intelligent makes you unpredictable and mysterious?
If they are predictable why can't author analyze and write one?
If they are mysterious and quirky why can't they write that even if it's not the "real thing".
You will never see an moron or low IQ person capable of looking at a basic food stock and being able to fabricate what is need to destroy a tank.
Would you say James Bond the character is smart and unpredictable and mysterious? Most people would argue he is.
Do you know what you don't see in those movies and books? First, person perspective.
Ian Flemming himself worked in intelligence. He was more than a little smart. Yet, he avoided it. Because he knew it was nothing but a trap to get into. Bond was a character even beyond him. So he wrote it 3rd person.
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That's the book Casino Royal. See for yourself.
Intelligence is about a lot more than that.Intelligence ultimately boils down to problem solving, which isn't anything special or mysterious. And as an author you control all the problems, and you can take your time and research to construct a satisfying problem and resolution.
Problem solving is one aspect.
Memory retention.
Being able to correlate the relationship between different things without being told.
Application of principle or knowledge
Deriving knew knowledge from known knowledge or data or observation
Recognition of out comes based on information given. ~ a form of correlation.
Understanding abstract concepts.
If it wasn't so special quantum mechanics and other problems in science and math would have been solved ages ago.