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[ilec]

Dear Authors of the World,

Please Research whatever you feel the need to include in your text. I urge you to follow this advice, if you don't it makes you look like an amateur .

Much love,

Tim

Comments

[monotonousglory]

I'm actually reading a book I like partially just for the awesome research!!
I get you totally.

[duckay]

There's a balance of suspension of disbelief and just lack of research that I think a good author can manage without sounding unprofessional.

That looks so much more enigmatic written down than it did in my head.

[ilec]

There's no reason to become The world's leading authority on anything.

However if you're going to use detail, do a little research.

for example, it's bad form to have your characters trying successfully to stuff a M16 into a Backpack, or having M16 firing the wrong sized rounds. The M16 doesn't fire 9mm rounds, it uses 7.62mm. If you don't know just use the word bullets.

It's also bad form to have you character recognise a Crocodile years later due to missing teeth, Crocodiles' teeth grow back.

[humorousllama]

Yes Research, is very important.

I believe that in some of the books i've read emotion seems to blind facts. The "inconvenient truth" suffers from this as do several others.

I bet it would be 1000% worse if publishers didn't deny publication and get them to fix their facts.

Sometimes, regardless of effort on the part of the author. Some Books are just not worth publishing. (Most provocative french "artsie" ones as an example)

All the Best.

-Nick