I am sure Ray will answer that, but to me from the reader's perspective, the more accurate the details are, the more I enjoy the book. But I am an anal, detail-oriented person (structural engineer). It kills me when I see a 1950s old civil defense Geiger counter used in a modern movie by a government or lab guy, like in Thor. It's just ridiculous and would never happen. Same with books. If I read something I know to be blatantly wrong, I don't want to finish the book! Makes it tough on the author.
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 7:50 AM, jshkay <[email protected]> wrote: > Getting into writing, I've started noticing a trend with how I write. I > just started doing some character outlines, and one was a priestess. I was > then like, she is a priestess of <blank>. From there, I realized I didn't > have a fully implemented god system. I then went ahead and wrote up my > whole system of gods for this world, which took me most of the day and into > the next. Another instance was when I wrote about the main character's > father being a blacksmith. I then realized I didn't know enough about > blacksmithing. After that I spent the rest of the day reading about and > watching videos on how to blacksmith, how to make damascan steel and > different types of swords. > > I'm wondering, do you run into this a lot when you write? You want to say > or write about something, but you don't know enough about the subject and > then you spend the next couple days just looking into that subject, or > writing another aspect of your world. I saw you mention before that the way > to be a writer is to study things like history and anthropology, and not > literature. I think I'm really starting to see why that is the case. -- Nick A "You know what I wish? I wish that all the scum of the world had but a single throat, and I had my hands about it..." Rorschach, 1975 "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."- Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759 "Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them." Bill Vaughan "The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." Plato
