Lois McMaster Bujold
I use real places much the way working artists use reference photos when arranging their compositions; not because I am trying to draw a portrait, but as a quick way to get proportions and perspectives right for a coming overlay pursuing quite another purpose.
Readers who try to read the result as portraiture -- either as historical fiction with the serial numbers filed off, or as historical critique -- are using inappropriate viewing protocols for this style of composition. The ones who attempt to draw mistakenly exact one-to-one correspondences between such fiction and history, and then try to tell the writer they got it wrong, are... unstoppable, apparently.
Not accusing you of this, btw. But it does come up, if one makes the mistake of revealing how sausages are made.
Ta, L.
I use real places much the way working artists use reference photos when arranging their compositions; not because I am trying to draw a portrait, but as a quick way to get proportions and perspectives right for a coming overlay pursuing quite another purpose.
Readers who try to read the result as portraiture -- either as historical fiction with the serial numbers filed off, or as historical critique -- are using inappropriate viewing protocols for this style of composition. The ones who attempt to draw mistakenly exact one-to-one correspondences between such fiction and history, and then try to tell the writer they got it wrong, are... unstoppable, apparently.
Not accusing you of this, btw. But it does come up, if one makes the mistake of revealing how sausages are made.
Ta, L.
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