How do issues in the non-erotic parts of a story affect you?

[Fadingaway]

Yes. They started co-authoring in 2007 and Felix went solo after Dick died in 2010.

I tend to read a lot of one genre at a time and it's been a while since I was on a mystery jag. During the last mystery jag I was on, I read "Dead Heat" and enjoyed it. I started "Even Money" and couldn't get into it. Both of those were co-written.

Francis remains a favorite of mine, one of the ones I go back to when I am periodically sick of the twenty-first century ( I didn't like the twentieth either). However, in one of his novels he made all my teeth hurt when a major plot element on explosives consistently, in great detail and accurately described black powder and always called it Cordite. My gout twinges when anyone writes cordite with a lower case c and uses it as a term for all "smokeless" propellants. When a current television detective announces that the smell of cordite pervades a crime scene, I immediately know that the murder was committed by time travelling Brits.

 

[Ldy_Sea]

Now who in their right mind would put a digital camera in a 1970's story based in old Mexico? And one with a large capacity data chip in it. And not catch it until a reader pointed out to me... uh... the stupid author.

Probably the same author who put a gun totin American in Camelot. Then again Sam Clemens was pretty famous....

 

[lovecraft68]

I wrote a series where part of it was a flashback to the late eighties early nineties and I featured pay phones and...beepers.

I received three comments from people commending me on attention to detail.

This thread makes me think of the legendary gaff during the filming of 1 million BC where the male star...is wearing his watch while battling a dinosaur.

 

[MatthewVett]

I once read a chess-based story that had completely incorrect moves. It was awful. Like, don't be specific if you can't play the game. It's especially egregious because you can just look up chess games online or play against the computer and get a list of working moves.

 

[SamScribble]

I once read a chess-based story that had completely incorrect moves. It was awful. Like, don't be specific if you can't play the game. It's especially egregious because you can just look up chess games online or play against the computer and get a list of working moves.

Oh, no! Are you saying that a rook can't move diagonally? And those horsey things ... how come they jump up and somehow always land off the straight line? Also, when the queen has the king in line, why she can't jump his bones? This game is no fun.

 

[Fadingaway]

Oh, no! Are you saying that a rook can't move diagonally? And those horsey things ... how come they jump up and somehow always land off the straight line? Also, when the queen has the king in line, why she can't jump his bones? This game is no fun.

To add fun, play it as strip one garment for each piece lost. This is particularly interesting if played outdoors in the park in a snowstorm.

If interest flags, tip over the board and hysterically (men can too be hysterical, anatomicalist bigot) accuse your opponent and some random park worker of colluding to cheat you.

Remember that whatever the veterans claim, the pieces are really controlled by tiny Persian warriors who live between the bottom of the board and the table. They moved your King into checkmate, not you, so you get an Aryan interference do over.

 

[Wolfias]

I haven't written in but three SRP's most of my writings been in ORP's. So obviously I enjoy the non erotic scenes. Nothing against the erotic scenes mind you, especially when they're blended into well written, character driven, intelligent storyline. I can easily overlook slight gaffes, it's the ''Hits you right between the eyes with a baseball bat'' gaffes that I have problems with.

 

[Handley_Page]

I wrote a series where part of it was a flashback to the late eighties early nineties and I featured pay phones and...beepers.

I received three comments from people commending me on attention to detail.

This thread makes me think of the legendary gaff during the filming of 1 million BC where the male star...is wearing his watch while battling a dinosaur.

Or the one where Robin Hood is making a stirring speech to his guys in Green and a jet airliner saunters across the sky.