This thread has been quite an education! As someone who doesn't know guns at all, nor the one in the story, the mechanism question didn't occur to me. It has helped me understand as per comments above, that a writer will convince some people with the way they handle an object, the description of it and how it is used, how much detail the…
This thread has been quite an education! As someone who doesn't know guns at all, nor the one in the story, the mechanism question didn't occur to me. It has helped me understand as per comments above, that a writer will convince some people with the way they handle an object, the description of it and how it is used, how much detail they add; and they will not convince others. A question of life experience?
A great lesson in any case: as a writer you will not please everyone.
This thread has been quite an education! As someone who doesn't know guns at all, nor the one in the story, the mechanism question didn't occur to me. It has helped me understand as per comments above, that a writer will convince some people with the way they handle an object, the description of it and how it is used, how much detail they add; and they will not convince others. A question of life experience?
A great lesson in any case: as a writer you will not please everyone.