Quote:Bob Schroeck wrote:So, I read your writer's guide, and I have some comments I'd like to make. Should I message you or start another thread, maybe in General Chatter, to make them?
Arbitrary changes to the setting made for the convenience of the writer ("I couldn't remember Hermione's middle name, so I made one up" is a classic real example I use in my writer's guide). In-line author's notes. Errors in vocabulary or usage that make what the writer wrote and what he intended two wildly different things.
@Matrix Dragon: Except that sex determination does work that way for birds. Of course, to be consistent, the author would have to genderbend every mammal in the fic, including Hermione's cat and the centaurs, and not just the humans. Failing to do that would break my SOD. Buckbeak the hippogriff could count as either a mammal or a bird, depending on how the author wants to handle it.