Nugget #141 -- Ignorance Ain't Always Bliss

 

The standards and truths of the time must influence your 

stories if you choose to set them there. You ignore them 

at your peril as a writer, and you risk missing out on the

really important stories that might be waiting to come out. 

Nugget #139 -- Responsibility to History

 We have a responsibility to research and to history to 

portray our settings (place, time, etc.) as accurately as 

is needed for our stories. That’s the often hard work 

(but still fun for those who enjoy it) of writing—

research. We do that because we value accuracy. 

We want our fiction to be as real as we need 

it to be from story to story.

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