So, here's a question. How much research or knowledge do you actually need to do, in order to make a premise work? How much do you actually need to get right?I mean, looking back at the thread, things that have been flagged as suspension-of-disbelief breaking ... include stuff like genetics or whatever not working that way, British kids talking in American English, historical anachronisms...
Well, yeah, I guess a lot of that could be annoying. Lord knows I've quit reading certain fanfics or even professionally published work for that reason.
But, without pointing fingers - and I refuse to say exactly whom I'm referring to - there's at least a couple people in this thread who did stuff in their writing that tripped my radar for 'getting it wrong'. And you didn't change it when I pointed it out.
Specifically, with regards to Asian name selection and general use of languages being a little Google Translate-y and left of centre.
So, clearly it wasn't important enough. I mean, I guess the people in question must have figured, hey, it doesn't really matter, you know? Besides Acyl, who the hell is gonna point it out, or even realise something's screwy? And you know? That's a fair assessment. Realistically, it probably didn't matter.
So where do you draw the line?
-- Acyl
Well, yeah, I guess a lot of that could be annoying. Lord knows I've quit reading certain fanfics or even professionally published work for that reason.
But, without pointing fingers - and I refuse to say exactly whom I'm referring to - there's at least a couple people in this thread who did stuff in their writing that tripped my radar for 'getting it wrong'. And you didn't change it when I pointed it out.
Specifically, with regards to Asian name selection and general use of languages being a little Google Translate-y and left of centre.
So, clearly it wasn't important enough. I mean, I guess the people in question must have figured, hey, it doesn't really matter, you know? Besides Acyl, who the hell is gonna point it out, or even realise something's screwy? And you know? That's a fair assessment. Realistically, it probably didn't matter.
So where do you draw the line?
-- Acyl