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FrickingKaos:
Well said mare. I read for the pure joy of reading. If there are mistakes it doesn't bother me unless they are grammar or punctuation errors, but factual mistakes I tend to overlook especially if it is a good story I'm reading.

RokofAges75:
Despite my analness with my own stories, I'm not a fact-checker in other people's stories either.  I'm like you, Lore, where if I read something that intrigues me and makes me wonder if it's true or not, I'll look it up, but that's just to learn, not to check on the writer.  I usually just go with the flow unless there are so many glaring errors that I can't maintain my suspension of belief.  But in that case, I probably would have stopped reading already.  Good writers are usually creative enough to make something seem believable even if there's no truth or reality to it at all.

As far as calling somebody out, I would never do that unless the author specifically asked.  In that case, I'd be willing to help, but I don't like to be the one who's always pointing out mistakes in reviews.  Contrary to what some may think, I don't want to be seen as a know-it-all LOL.

I have been called out by readers before.  Sometimes it's helpful, and sometimes it's kind of annoying.  When I was writing Broken, there was this girl who was a med student in another country who would constantly challenge me on stuff, and it drove me nuts because I knew I was doing the absolute best I could to get things right.  Apparently I should have been running everything by her before I wrote it!  I know she was just trying to help, and she was usually right, so what I learned from that is to fact-check before I write, while I write, and after I write and not be afraid to ask people with experience for help, instead of trying to look up everything on my own.  At the end of the day, it's just fiction, so it doesn't matter if it's all 100% accurate or not, but if I can tell the story I want to tell and be 99% accurate at the same time, I'd like to be!  That's just me being anal though.

mare:
^ what I would have learned from that is it might be fun to slap med students lol

mare:
To answer Julie's questions, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't point out mistakes research wise unless it was a big one like I mentioned before like *pssst there is no Roy in the Backstreet Boys* or if it's something in my profession I know I could help out with, but again that's only if the story is still in progress & the author has asked for help.

I have never really been called out for things, that I remember anyway. But if I was, not sure it would bother me and depending on how big the mistake, I'd probably let it go or fix it.

Pengi:
I very rarely describe scenes specifically enough to make people notice inaccuracies in places. I tend to focus more on describing body language and character location, but leave the actual settings up to the person reading to imagine. For example in the chapter of Borrowed Time when the fellas went to a pub in Ireland, I didn't describe the pub itself, I just went with the smells that a pub would smell like and the lighting. Like the pub itself could be any number of pubs, I was so nondescript with it, yet I got comments on how freaking realistic the pub sounded. But really all I described was the guys IN the pub, their body language, tones, etc.

The only time I've ever been called on something was when I was working on Time Watcher and I had the guys perform at Brian's old High School and I made it sound really hokey and back country. I mean that's how Brian's always made it sound! So I based it off the high school here because it's kinda hokey and back country here. I got a comment from a girl in Lexington tho that was like pissed off because I'd assumed Kentucky was all rednecks. I was like ohmy because I did'nt know... LOL Having been to Lexington, KY now I'm like whoooaaa does Brian describe home differently than it really is.. LOL Cos um sorry Brian  but Lexington does NOT equal a "small town" by ANY MEANS. Lmao

I didn't fix it in Time Watcher, but every time someone points anything out to me for Borrowed Time, I'm going back in to fix it.

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