Annoying reviews

[Ozme52]

Well, (and I'm not a reviewer per se, and certainly not that particular reviewer,) sometimes the devil's in the details.

Any good piece of fiction requires a 'suspension of disbelief' as they say. Put unlikely characters in unlikely situations? Sure. Ask me to pretend everything about the world around them is also unlikely... and a story can lose a lot of appeal...

So attention to detail can pay off. Many wouldn't care about the mall cameras etc., obviously someone did. You can either take such things into account next time or ignore them and perhaps lose some of your readers.

I'm a real bug-a-boo, for example, when it comes to medieval settings. Know the difference between a mace and a morning star. That sort of thing. LOL. You're not going to please everyone regardless of how hard you try.

[Ashtree]

Well, (and I'm not a reviewer per se, and certainly not that particular reviewer,) sometimes the devil's in the details.

Any good piece of fiction requires a 'suspension of disbelief' as they say. Put unlikely characters in unlikely situations? Sure. Ask me to pretend everything about the world around them is also unlikely... and a story can lose a lot of appeal...

So attention to detail can pay off. Many wouldn't care about the mall cameras etc., obviously someone did. You can either take such things into account next time or ignore them and perhaps lose some of your readers.

I'm a real bug-a-boo, for example, when it comes to medieval settings. Know the difference between a mace and a morning star. That sort of thing. LOL. You're not going to please everyone regardless of how hard you try.

Of course that's true, and I would be the first to admit that my writing skills are limited and if someone hauled me over the coals for bad grammar or frequent repetition of words or phrases I'd plead guilty immediately, but what I was driving at was that reviews like the one I mentioned are like the people who watch American Civil War dramas (for example) and latch onto the fact that one of the characters used a gun that wasn't issued to the U.S. Army until 1870 etc, etc.

There is a bigger picture involved.

[H Dean]

Of course that's true, and I would be the first to admit that my writing skills are limited and if someone hauled me over the coals for bad grammar or frequent repetition of words or phrases I'd plead guilty immediately, but what I was driving at was that reviews like the one I mentioned are like the people who watch American Civil War dramas (for example) and latch onto the fact that one of the characters used a gun that wasn't issued to the U.S. Army until 1870 etc, etc.

There is a bigger picture involved.

You are speaking of a fairly big mistake, really. I don't think I would completely trash a story for one mistake like that - there is, as you say, a bigger picture. However, missing obvious things - like video cameras in a mall - is a pretty big mistake.

Writing is like robbing a bank with an empty gun. It all goes smothly until someone notices that the chambers are empty.