I was reading this entry earlier, about mistakes that can pull you out of the story when the author hasn't researched properly. It made me think about how frustrating I often find research
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It is such a relief when you're just writing stuff you feel comfortable in. Although if you get anal you're probably always going to get wrong--like I was writing something in New York, but they were teenagers, and of course most of what I'm doing is based on my own high school experience, which was not in Manhattan. I fear the NYC school system. It's far too confusing.
But still yes, the many layers upon layers of a world you don't know based on a world you kind of know. And I can see a lot of the arguments about HP being British just as I can see those about SPN being American. It's just once you get into that people will also have their own axes to grind against other fans even when it's not always correct. Like in HP there was a lot of "this is what this character is supposed to represent based on subtle cues only insiders understand" that were not always true. (I loved a comment I read in response to a person saying the Weasleys were "coded" Irish because they had red hair and freckles and lots of kids that said knowing JKR if she was going to "code" someone Irish she'd name them Seamus Finnigan, have his fear be a banshee and send him on vacation in a Shamrock-covered tent.)
I've tried to RPS where I was pulled out because the production stuff sounded completely wrong even to me who doesn't know any better, but usually I'm open to it.
knowing JKR if she was going to "code" someone Irish she'd name them Seamus Finnigan, have his fear be a banshee and send him on vacation in a Shamrock-covered tent.
HAHAHA (Maybe the person who actually failed to imagine Cho Chang as Chinese shouldn't laugh, but I say that just goes to show that you don't necessarily have to be any more British than me to get JKR's ethnic hints.)
But still yes, the many layers upon layers of a world you don't know based on a world you kind of know. And I can see a lot of the arguments about HP being British just as I can see those about SPN being American. It's just once you get into that people will also have their own axes to grind against other fans even when it's not always correct. Like in HP there was a lot of "this is what this character is supposed to represent based on subtle cues only insiders understand" that were not always true. (I loved a comment I read in response to a person saying the Weasleys were "coded" Irish because they had red hair and freckles and lots of kids that said knowing JKR if she was going to "code" someone Irish she'd name them Seamus Finnigan, have his fear be a banshee and send him on vacation in a Shamrock-covered tent.)
I've tried to RPS where I was pulled out because the production stuff sounded completely wrong even to me who doesn't know any better, but usually I'm open to it.
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HAHAHA (Maybe the person who actually failed to imagine Cho Chang as Chinese shouldn't laugh, but I say that just goes to show that you don't necessarily have to be any more British than me to get JKR's ethnic hints.)
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