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Jump in your ACME time machine and you will find me in line for that first showing of Star Wars at Grauman's Chinese Theatre.

That phrase shocked the verisimilitude out of me.

Okay, for only a few seconds.

The movie was ground breaking, especially for Hollywood SF, for the first time making space travel seem amazing real. My friends and SF fans at the time all forgave the use of the phrase, but it is a classic faux pas the script editor or continuity editor should have fixed.

You are right. Readers will pick it up in context, but it is the front-loading of meaning for the term that I was worried about. The poll makes me believe, none of those are likely to be in the forefront of the reader's mind, and if they are a gamer, they'll like not think much about it.

#writer #writing #writingCommunity #verisimilitude #revision #fiction #sf #starwars

He escaped! Oh cool!

And now hoodie-wearing hacker Broderick (or what’s his name, David?) now does a trick that actually used to work: jump starting a pay phone with a conductive piece of metal. Though he shouldn’t have had to pay to call the operator. #verisimilitude

#WarGames

@oneoveralpha
I'm filing this under #writingadvice and #cominglaborapocalypse.

https://youtu.be/fw7fsd_ASOg

For writers, extinct jobs (esp. lamplighters) are a great way to bring historical, fantasy, or steampunk milieus to life, i.e., provide #Verisimilitude. This video is also a reminder that progress comes at a price. Anything you do might become obsolete. Even art is in danger thanks to #AI. Not being a #Luddite here. No. There are solutions: Look up the concept of #BasicIncome and keep in mind that most of human labor is to an extent both forced and dehumanizing.

Here's some #writingadvice: No detail about your character is off-limits, so long as it advances the story and is not #gratuitous.

We are all biological entities with all the ick that implies—human—and in ways we won't admit to others, a psychological mess. Beyond us being #writers, by definition neurotic, our readers are no different in these aspects; they vary only in degree.

Detail the noisome everyday facts of peoples' lives, particularly if it helps describe living in foreign cultures, doing unique jobs often avoided, or living in places uncomfortable for anyone. Poverty has a smell, as does a fish market.

Relating these sensation lets the character feel out of place, and by extension, it lets your #reader feel out of place and empathize. Empathizing with a coal miner may be easier if you show her running to the equivalent of a bathroom through a dank, dark, claustrophobic tunnel, then feeling the dehumanization of doing her business a mile underground. Common details raise #verisimilitude, if applicable to your story.

For this reason, if your character picks his nose when no one is looking, if in his internal thoughts he admires guys while truly loving his wife, or if she has a sensitive nose and classifies everyone by how the stink... include the ick. Bathing, eating, dealing with sickness, controlling attraction to others, violating personal ethics when in trouble—doing things everyone does or has experienced is relatable. It feels... truthful. Don't leave these things out!

Just avoid making this stuff gratuitous. You don't want that reputation.

#5amwritersclub #verisimilitude Accounting for changes in the real world. Today's session is about rewriting. But coffee first!

Sharing this because I’m more-or-less doing what the guy in the song is doing. #Verisimilitude

"Red Mountain Wine" by Ivery Kimble with Taylor Kimble and Pearl Wagoner Richardson
https://youtu.be/0TNrKDzvBLk

Sharing this because I’m more-or-less doing what the guy in the song is doing. #Verisimilitude

"Red Mountain Wine" by Ivery Kimble with Taylor Kimble and Pearl Wagoner Richardson
https://youtu.be/0TNrKDzvBLk

@garfiald
#Verisimilitude