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- From: mtan@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Maureen Tan)
- Subject: Re: Reserach in Fiction
- References: <23929@castle.ed.ac.uk> <9220223.26620@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> <23955@castle.ed.ac.uk> <1992Jul20.185510.21995@sqwest.wimsey.bc.ca>
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- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 18:02:16 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul20.185510.21995@sqwest.wimsey.bc.ca>,
- marcy@sqwest.wimsey.bc.ca (Marcy Thompson) wrote:
-
-
- > Even if I don't understand *why* something
- > bothers someone so much, I understand that little things can make
- > that sort of difference. As a writer, it is up to me to decide what
- > to do about it.
-
- This sounds like my husband and his turn-off-the-basement-light
- compulsion. I don't understand why it bothers him when
- *that* light is left on-- he has no problem with lightbulbs glowing
- their little watts out all over the rest of the house. Anyway,
- because I want to keep him happy, I try to be as compulsive
- about that particular light as he is.
-
- As a writer, I try to cater to the compulsions of the audience
- that reads my particular genre. I want to keep them happy.
- I do enough research so that I don't disrupt their
- "willing suspension of disbelief." Not a whit more.
-
- Maureen (a.k.a. Jane)
- "No, damn it, DON'T turn off the light. I'm down here!"
-