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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2012-12-29 02:53 pm

[ SECRET POST #2188 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2188 ⌋

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[personal profile] pts 2012-12-29 08:36 pm (UTC)(link)
This secret is totally fallacious.

You don't need to have experience with a particular kind of sex in order to write it any more than you need to be a soldier/fencer/boxer in order to write a good fight scene of whatever kind.

Experience might help with certain kinds of writing, but it's by no means an absolute prerequisite, in which case we're talking about judging examples on a case-by-case basis and with a certain degree of nuance.

Nuance! Horror of horrors. Heaven forfend we should ever have to allow for a complicated world that requires actual critical thinking instead of the knee-jerk application of whatever oversimple rubric upon which we've decided.

(Anonymous) 2012-12-29 08:48 pm (UTC)(link)
just pointing out, nowhere did the secret say "experience"

it sounded like they were talking about knowledge

and does the writer who is writing being a soldier need to do some goddamned research if they know nothing about it, yes they do

(Anonymous) 2012-12-29 10:01 pm (UTC)(link)
This. You never need to have done everything you're writing about (or really, any of it) but you better have done some research to write about it accurately.

(Anonymous) 2012-12-29 11:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Agreed. Or, if it's a fantasy, at least make the fantasy elements believable and consistent.