It's incredibly petty and totally irrelevant to the story as a whole, but it was there at the back of my mind for the entire rest of the fic.
I think for me, my ability to immerse myself into a story is inverse proportion to how much it looks like the writer has at least tried to get all their ducks in a row. In the case of your example, why on earth would anyone not at least make an effort? Out of curiosity I went looking for the right email address format for MPs and it took me less than 5 minutes on Google to figure it out.
It puts doubt into your mind, and then the fic just loses something, because if the author doesn't care enough to do her research, why should I care when I'm reading it?
Makes perfect sense to me. So much so that if there are glaring spelling or grammar errors in the first couple of lines of a fic, then it shows that the writer can't be bothered to do their best by their story, so why should I give their fic the time when they obviously didn't? ;)
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Date: 2005-07-09 05:26 pm (UTC)I think for me, my ability to immerse myself into a story is inverse proportion to how much it looks like the writer has at least tried to get all their ducks in a row. In the case of your example, why on earth would anyone not at least make an effort? Out of curiosity I went looking for the right email address format for MPs and it took me less than 5 minutes on Google to figure it out.
It puts doubt into your mind, and then the fic just loses something, because if the author doesn't care enough to do her research, why should I care when I'm reading it?
Makes perfect sense to me. So much so that if there are glaring spelling or grammar errors in the first couple of lines of a fic, then it shows that the writer can't be bothered to do their best by their story, so why should I give their fic the time when they obviously didn't? ;)