Pete Fox: Blog

My biggest complaint is writers who do a poor job of checking to make sure their facts are correct. Because when they fail its hard to suspend my disbelief on the rest of the story as needed.

What do I mean. Well in order for the reader to believe your plot often involving unlikely situations you need to ground a story in as many true facts as possible. eg If you are writing about London in the 1900s figure out a few details that place your reader there. And get them correct. Now I recently heard this from a main stream writers who has over 40 published novels. When he reads a book and finds details that he knows are wrong he starts to question the premise and the story itself. For me that is even more important here in SOL when a lot of the settings like family sex parties or sexy time travel. Know how a pistol works if your character uses one; know who the President is or when a great war started. Giving the reader a believable world will create a better story allowing the reader to believe in you no matter how far out your plot.

All this to say search engine is your friend and the tubes. Use them.

And writers don't get in a huff when people tell you your facts are wrong. Make the changes, if you care.
End of rant.

I finally reposted a reedit of this story that was in my file for a couple of years. My attempt at the first person perspective. Many writers on SOL and other sites go the route of 'true life', this is fantasy but inspired by people I have known. That was a bit uncomfortable. I want to thank aroslav for a quick review of the story and nudge. I am working on a sexy visit to an nudist resort that is sexy but yet still stays true to nudism's values.

I read the Prink Van Winkle story a few weeks ago. I was impressed with the humor and quality of the story from way back in 2006.

Questions came to mind. What if the new detective in the family found out about the incestuous nature of the family. This lead me to over a period of a couple of weeks to write this story. I had Lubrican/Uncle Bobs permission as long as credit given.

I like to use the present then to flash back back and forth. I also like history so I tried to nail down a few others facts and questions about Bobs past.

Like Lubrican / Uncle Bob I will repost chapters if I get feed back to correct errors.

There are 5 chapters plus an Epilog.

Lubrican, the author of the original story and an excellent writer himself, did email me some comments and feedback that helped make this story better, thank you.

I write for fun seeing where the story goes, I am not a grammmer nazi. Enjoy.

Constructive feedback appreciated.