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Discuss this interview with Dan Bensen here
Great interview. I love him bringing up the "fiction has to make sense, reality doesn't " effect and the "just do your research and that's the best you can do, you'll never be totally 'plausible ' " answer.
(I mean, my own research into sports gambling has led me to everything from Myanmar rebels to gamblers disguised as cowboys to giant supermansions with questionable business models)
Great interview. I love him bringing up the "fiction has to make sense, reality doesn't " effect and the "just do your research and that's the best you can do, you'll never be totally 'plausible ' " answer.
(I mean, my own research into sports gambling has led me to everything from Myanmar rebels to gamblers disguised as cowboys to giant supermansions with questionable business models)
Sorry for diverting from the subject of thread, but, if you don't mind me asking, why are you awake? It's very early in New York City.
Seconded! Those questions were a lot of fun (and a bit of work) to answer. Thank you so much.Absolutely superb questions,Gary, I take my hat off to you
Yes. Levski's Boots is what is it is now, but for future projects, how do you guys approach the "different thing" problem in fiction?Though he's not wrong about the problem of trying to square that with people understanding "this, here, is the different thing"
Yes. Levski's Boots is what is it is now, but for future projects, how do you guys approach the "different thing" problem in fiction?
Yes. Levski's Boots is what is it is now, but for future projects, how do you guys approach the "different thing" problem in fiction?
for future projects, how do you guys approach the "different thing" problem in fiction?
In short stories, I think a two paragraph afterword going (hey so in real life this didn't happen, this did) normally works.
Alan Smale did that in his story on the Gunpowder Plot, and it worked for me.
As for whether something is a good story. I think that's something that the reader can say after the author has finished writing ("it was good"). But while the story is being written, who knows if it's going to be good?