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Originally Posted by Gregg Bell
Hitch, I didn't really mean I hoped readers would call me out. I just meant in a scene loaded with so much action I didn't think people were going to stop and think: "Hey, Lainey has experience in a Buddhist Monastery? Wait, no, aren't only men in Buddhist Monasteries?" That sort of thing. I'm not out to jerk anybody around.
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Yes Gregg, it is exactly that type of thing that will immediately pull a reader out of a story.
You know I seem to vaguely recall on another forum a few years back, several people telling an author to make sure he gets his facts straight before just putting something impossible in a book. That author had about as many reasons as you are coming up with now.
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