pet peeve

pet peeve

I read a blog recently about someone who didn't credit the original author when she posted the piece on her blog.

While the intent (as was stated, I have no reference in this situation) was never to mislead people in said postings. It is misleading at the very least. For people who know and have met me, when I posted the catalog pic of my collar... they thought it was actually me in the pic. Now I never meant to mislead, but I also was pretty confident that the water mark of the catalog would catch people's eye. Anyway, it didn't and I took it down as a result. One of these days V will snap a pic of me in it, similar to that one, see if we can recreate it.

Anyway... I digress.

Being a wannabe scribe with a book at Borders one day, I often come across subjects, themes, situations that I want to incorporate into my story, but I have really no knowledge about. I mean some things are a given, like some of the bondage scenes I write. V and I are adventurous, but not quite THAT much. I write on imagined feelings and reactions. So while the scene is imaginary, I guess I've given a lil glimpse as to what goes through this head of mine. I'm running into that with Chains. I've had to.... *GASP* do..... research. Yes research, even for fiction.

But there is nothing that irritates me more (ok, well there are a few things that do, but work with me here) than when someone writes something completely inaccurate (even if it IS fiction) that could be verified within 30 seconds. To me it taints the writing and the writer, and I shall not read anything by them again. If you can't take 30 seconds to verify a fact and incorporate it into the story correctly, again even if it is fiction, then why should I take the time to read your stuff? I mean if I'm able to discern that it's WRONG information, then anyone can. If you're doing it on purpose, then tell the reader that. When you state in the first paragraph, something factual that is incorrect simply by laziness, ptooey.

I came across such a story today, and I just closed it and shook my head. I'll not read that author again.