I think most people are pretty forgiving (unless they're mean and who cares about them), especially when the story is good enough to distract them.
Heh. Thanks. It's not that I worry so much about aggrieved letters from readers who will tell me that I put the Shaw's on Whitney rather than Whalley Avenue, it's that I never want to make the kind of mistake that jars a person out of a story. Usually I just don't think much about it: I don't have to. In writing "Nutmeg and Limestone," though, I noticed that I cared.
I think most people are pretty forgiving (unless they're mean and who cares about them), especially when the story is good enough to distract them.
Hence the story about Cain in 1930's Germany that sits here on my hard drive, looking like four thousand words' worth of historical neurosis. : P
And the cool thing about not specifically naming a place as you've done, is you have lots of people who react to the familiarity and think 'Maybe this is set here...' instead of setting out to find the inaccuracies.
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Heh. Thanks. It's not that I worry so much about aggrieved letters from readers who will tell me that I put the Shaw's on Whitney rather than Whalley Avenue, it's that I never want to make the kind of mistake that jars a person out of a story. Usually I just don't think much about it: I don't have to. In writing "Nutmeg and Limestone," though, I noticed that I cared.
I think most people are pretty forgiving (unless they're mean and who cares about them), especially when the story is good enough to distract them.
Hence the story about Cain in 1930's Germany that sits here on my hard drive, looking like four thousand words' worth of historical neurosis. : P
And the cool thing about not specifically naming a place as you've done, is you have lots of people who react to the familiarity and think 'Maybe this is set here...' instead of setting out to find the inaccuracies.
That would be cool!