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A very interesting blog. I can accept all kinds of 'unreality' as long as it's consistent and as long as the story/film is a good one: eg the novel, 100 Years of Solitude and the film of the book Never Let Me Go. What bothers me are the simple ...

That was a fine example, even if I say so myself. I bet Wrath wishes he's thought of it :)

I did three solid months of research before starting to write my novel. I also had family anecdotes passed down from generation to generation. I didn't want my novel to be a memoir, more of a story wrapped around true fictional events. I have kept ...

I spose if you're aiming to produce very commercial stuff, it doesn't matter if it's unconvincing to intelligent people - the lowest common denominator is your demographic. I personally find it spoils things things for me if they aren't realistic. ...

Yes, I think it depends on the medium, but also very greatly on readers' / watchers' expectations. If it's clearly fiction, perhaps you can get away with thtoopid details, but if it's flagged as a documentary or news, then TV must take extreme care ...

I wonder if it depends on the medium? Television is more immediately compelling than the written word and perhaps for this reason people are more willing to suspend belief. I remember watching an episode of Lewis which was out-and-out preposterous - ...

Yeah, that's the problem when someone knows more than the author - the story loses respect, loses credibility, peeps' willingness to engage slips a tad more. They're like typos to me. If everything else is 'good', I'll overlook one or two, but more ...

Why do we do it? Well, a big factor must be, for our own satisfaction. (Like stroking the cat: it may look like we're doing the animal a favour, but we get considerable tactile satisfaction out of it, too.) I certainly feel much more fulfilled as an ...

You make a cracking point here Alan. I have to admit I have sat through a couple of hours of you tube watching stories of people recovering from open heart surgery and have spoken to a couple of people at length about their experiences just for a ...

I was recently wondering how much care we seem take to ensure that what we write is plausible, if not precisely accurate. I know that I sometimes agonise for ages over certain things I want to do. Also, I sometimes get questions from other Cloudies ...

I do hope they weren't selling pigskin bags

I read that too and I can see how imaginations may indeed run wild.

It's probably more common than they'll ever admit. Hot, cold, hot, cold - it must generate a lot of stresses. In our bathroom the inside panel of a double glazed window unit did the same thing. Just went bang. Bits everywhere. Glass under stress ...

And why are you calling me Del?