tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4940224740718934743.post8126671395593889308..comments2024-03-10T04:29:20.044-04:00Comments on Mad Genius Club: It ain't necessarily soSarah A. Hoythttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17478124095732219352noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4940224740718934743.post-47373967684213348132009-08-15T15:53:18.076-04:002009-08-15T15:53:18.076-04:00Dave,
Sadly, true. Liz not being "South Afri...Dave,<br /><br />Sadly, true. Liz not being "South African enough" is a hoot, though! If you'd made her any more South African, you'd have had to tone her down or the 'Merkins wouldn't understand her.<br /><br />I could hear everything she said in the South African accent - you did that very well.<br /><br />And yeah, perceived usually does trump real - until the real smacks you in the face.Kate Paulkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02034983693134240754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4940224740718934743.post-82085900782846768392009-08-15T15:46:59.204-04:002009-08-15T15:46:59.204-04:00Matapam,
I'm a former geo, too (graduated rig...Matapam,<br /><br />I'm a former geo, too (graduated right after the 87 stock market crash. Oh, look, there goes a career down the toilet!) - I make the same kind of checks. Authors plonking a convenient volcano, hot spring or whatever without any concern for whether it should actually be there drive me nuts.Kate Paulkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02034983693134240754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4940224740718934743.post-53250101849490483732009-08-15T14:29:58.427-04:002009-08-15T14:29:58.427-04:00What is even more scary is that percieved knowledg...What is even more scary is that percieved knowledge trumps real. I've screwed up a few times meself, but my favorite has to be the guy who posted that Liz from Pyramid Scheme was too american. That I should have done some homework on South Africa.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12315551718688781746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4940224740718934743.post-88063028770901592892009-08-15T11:29:19.788-04:002009-08-15T11:29:19.788-04:00No body else willing to admit they were wrong once...No body else willing to admit they were wrong once or twice in the far distant past?<br /><br />My degree's in geology. I _always_ double check mineral compositions. And having only worked for oil companies, I'm especially careful to check on anything involving hard rock mining.<br /><br />What? Mining in SF? Geeze guys, my Martian Lizards go looking for Uranium ore in Jurrassic Antarctica. Can't risk getting the background wrong on that one . . .Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4940224740718934743.post-84830189218435207552009-08-13T21:14:32.644-04:002009-08-13T21:14:32.644-04:00Matapam,
I have to wonder if the fatality rate fo...Matapam,<br /><br />I have to wonder if the fatality rate for mothers of MCs is because the author knows they can't write it right and is taking the easy way out?<br /><br />Since I haven't had that particular experience, I suspect it would surprise me a lot, too.<br /><br />And yes, it's the background information where these things matter. That's usually where the most dedicated snarkage from readers happens.Kate Paulkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02034983693134240754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4940224740718934743.post-49860187025081547092009-08-13T09:40:52.607-04:002009-08-13T09:40:52.607-04:00The single thing I had the most misconceptions abo...The single thing I had the most misconceptions about was children. Babies. <br /><br />Prior to, well, conception. Now that I'm an Empty Nester, I find myself hazy on some of the timing and details. But at least I know there's an age by which a baby can roll over, scoot, crawl, start pulling themselves to their feet and so forth. I've been inside an elementary school since i passed sixth grade myself. If I'd tried to write some of the female characters I write now, back before I was even aware of the sheer time involved in caring for a mere infant . . . well, the results would not have been good.<br /><br />And not that I'm writing a "How to Raise Baby" book, but when one's Main Character has a baby at mid-winter, it's nice to know she'll be trying to keep track of a speed crawler by late summer. Not a toddler, and no speech yet. And that in the intervening months, MC may have managed one or two long hot luxurious baths.<br /><br />A lot of what you need to get right is background information. My book does not revolve around parenting issues, I just got tired of books where raising babies was apparently effortless, if of course, the mother survived childbirth (about a 80% fatality rate for MC's mothers, as far as I can see).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com