Internet to OFF while writing?

[TxRad]

No, not the story. However, the background does need to be factual. If you set a story in Manhattan and use a subway, which subway and where does the hero or villain board/get off? I live in NYC and I used the subways. However, I don't remember all of the details. (Some of it may be protective amnesia. I can never eat sardines again.)

That was also a joke.

I look up facts all the time.

 

[Bramblethorn]

No, not the story. However, the background does need to be factual. If you set a story in Manhattan and use a subway, which subway and where does the hero or villain board/get off?

And if you set a story in a city you don't know very well, make sure it actually has a subway before you use it in the story.

The same writing team also managed to give an Australian crime boss an inadvertent sex-change (guess they assumed "Leslie" was a woman's name) and thought "Evita" was about Isabella Peron. So much facepalming.