Re: RARA-AVIS: Re: Caught Stealing

From: James Reasoner ( james53@flash.net)
Date: 31 Dec 2006


Writers make all sorts of errors all the time that nobody except someone with extensive knowledge would catch. That seldom bothers me. What does is when they go out of their way to make a mistake. For example, several years ago I read a novel set in the area where I live. At one point, the narrator says something like, "I drove from Point A to Point B. It took X amount of time." Well, in reality you could walk from Point A to Point B faster than the amount of time the author stuck in there. Just say, "I drove from Point A to Point B." If the amount of time it's going to take is important (and it wasn't at all, in this case), try to find out what's realistic.

James Reasoner



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