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Dec 1, 2019 at 8:54am
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Yummy tips
by Past Member 'bobturn'
Zen and Qdoll gave some tasty tips and insight into this worthy topic.

Doing some writing of my own, it is an unwritten law to do at least some fact-checking if not 'real' research before taking a baby out into public. Another rule is to try sticking to what I know. If I don't know much about a Fantasy or Sci/Fi plot the real digging begins from my well-stocked browser menu bar of specialty websites, libraries, and online software tools (such as rhyming suggestions for a word).

So, what do I do when my reading hits a wall where an author disregards these rules and resources?

I stop.

It usually ruins my flow of reading and jars my literate senses. I love it when the opposite thing happens. I recently saw a Stephen King novel that I snapped up among the few paperbacks displayed at my grocery store. I got the strangest sense of Deja' Vu as I began reading.

"My goodness! I already have this book." I'm halfway through re-reading a great author.

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Yummy tips · 12-01-19 8:54am
by Past Member 'bobturn'
Re: Yummy tips · 12-08-19 5:57pm
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