I state that what follows has nothing to do with my current books being read.
That said, carry a fun discussion I've read on aNobii , trusting that its author, Ziadada, not angry.
I put in my blog because I share his thoughts and I find that she has exhibited in an ironic and not at all offensive.
Read and if you like, even your say.
The purpose of this post is to extend a half-serious but heartfelt appeal to aspiring writers of fantasy, and for information to readers, so if you can pay more attention to what they write / read at least as much as you pay the air they breathe and the food they eat, because alas even the wrong words in their small pollute and do harm. (END PREAMBLE ;-))
logic. "Logic" is not a dirty word, nor a habit to pure mathematicians. What I write / read should not only have a beautiful sound, but also make sense. If you write without (frequent) errors of spelling and syntax were enough to be writers, even the postal bulletins were published, and the fourth-grade books were bestsellers. But there's more: practice to always check, tirelessly, if what you say or tell us it makes logical sense that prevent us believe things are made without foundation and without consistency. (Not yet extinct in a generation where typists and shop assistants were left to tell Berlin that cobblers and milkmen a Polish village for them were a direct and serious threat, and the consequences we remind each January 27. Fairness and consistency of the words running can be pretty damn serious issues). Ergo: always check if the actions and the events of your story is logical and consistent. If your story in an evil genius plot in the shadows for years, has come up with a diabolical plan to bomb-proof and, if anything, to fail due to circumstances totally unpredictable a priori. If after such a plot or acting haphazardly cobbled together a plan, he is not an evil genius and you are not writers. If a situation is resolved or crashes due to a person or an object that is on the scene, person or object must have a reason to be there. At least in an internal logic: if you are the reincarnation of Jacovitti, that's great that the situation is saved by a sausage with two legs.
Lexicon: if you use a word, make sure you know how to spell and what it means. If you use a term scientific and technical make sure also that it is exactly the appropriate one: the cherry tomatoes are not small. If your story is a reference to a specific period of Earth history, which also controlled the technology or the discovery were known at the time of your story. King Arthur would not eat the mashed potatoes.
Unfortunately, in addition to the historical consistency of the material data, even if you have to do to the consistency of behavior. If you place your story in a historical context and / or geographical reality, you just have not read up on material data: your characters will have to think and talk about how men and women of that time and place, not like your high school janitor. If you describe Genghis Khan coming out of his tent, accurately represent what is out there is only your duty, the fact remains that if the captain came out to make an outburst to a servant, the servant may be paralyzed terror cagarsi him, struck down, jump on his knees, but can not say "WTF."
If just the "WTF" of the servant or mashed Camelot are central elements in your story, make sure at least to be Monty Python.
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