FarmerJohn said:

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Sounds like it'd be easier to change the date to the '70's.

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Prohibition is a major plot point, so that might be a sticking point. Maybe I can change it to disco dancing

Also there's a kid at a doctor's office wearing an Atlanta Braves cap.

bluefire579 said:

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Ronnie said:

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Is it just me or would anyone else love to read a historical fiction full of anachronisms like that. I'd find it hilarious.

The knight dismounted the horse, entered his home and heated a hungry man dinner in the microwave.

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A Knight's Tale had several things like that, though a bit more subtly, more in speech and culture than actual products. I for one still find that one highly entertaining.

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Titus with Anthony Hopkins is another example.

It was an alternate history where Roman didn't fall right?


Wait we would have been living on Mars for 100+ years if that hadn't happened

Going the opposite way, I read an interview with Lois Duncan (YA mystery/suspense writer) who wrote a bunch of novels in the 70s and 80s - Stranger with My face, Killing Mr Griffin, I know What You Did Last Summer, etc. They're actually very good and she was updating them for modern audiences, and talked about how many of the plots could basically be resolved in 5 minutes with cell phones and social media. So the new versions all have some issue that knocks those devices out of consideration.

YouBet said:

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MuckRaker96 said:

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Has a few historical inaccuracies in it. Supposed to be set in 1922. In the first 36 pages however, we've had.

The US Attorney General giving speeches on live TV
A copy machine
Plastic garbage bags
Someone calling 9-1-1.

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I've never thought about it but there probably is a market for people our age who were taught real history to solely edit stuff like this. Imagine all of the younger folks starting to write historical novels that will have no idea what happened and when.

If this is an older person, then shame on them.

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Yeah it was all digital, not on the phone, so I don't know his age. The first few times I kept going back to the intro to assure that I wasn't getting the setting wrong, but oh well. It's not even in the bottom 50 of novels I've edited over the past few years. There's some truly horrific ideas out there.

MuckRaker96 said:

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YouBet said:

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MuckRaker96 said:

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Has a few historical inaccuracies in it. Supposed to be set in 1922. In the first 36 pages however, we've had.

The US Attorney General giving speeches on live TV
A copy machine
Plastic garbage bags
Someone calling 9-1-1.

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I've never thought about it but there probably is a market for people our age who were taught real history to solely edit stuff like this. Imagine all of the younger folks starting to write historical novels that will have no idea what happened and when.

If this is an older person, then shame on them.

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Yeah it was all digital, not on the phone, so I don't know his age. The first few times I kept going back to the intro to assure that I wasn't getting the setting wrong, but oh well. It's not even in the bottom 50 of novels I've edited over the past few years. There's some truly horrific ideas out there.

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You haven't seen mine yet.

I once edited a book that was fan fiction from a video game and included a final fight which was a shot-for-shot ripoff with different character names of Sarah Connor vs. the T-100 from the original Terminator - the burning vehicle, the factory, turning on the machines to confuse it, crushing it in the giant contraption, even the protagonist saying "I got you, effer!" When I brought it up, the author got really angry that I was making a comparison to a previously written work.

MuckRaker96 said:

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I once edited a book that was fan fiction from a video game and included a final fight which was a shot-for-shot ripoff with different character names of Sarah Connor vs. the T-100 from the original Terminator - the burning vehicle, the factory, turning on the machines to confuse it, crushing it in the giant contraption, even the protagonist saying "I got you, effer!" When I brought it up, the author got really angry that I was making a comparison to a previously written work.

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If you're going to get upset when an editor brings something up, you shouldn't be writing, much less hiring someone to edit said writing. I understand that writing can get very personal, but if you want it to go somewhere beyond your computer screen, you're going to need to be able to take a little criticism.

jenn96 said:

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Going the opposite way, I read an interview with Lois Duncan (YA mystery/suspense writer) who wrote a bunch of novels in the 70s and 80s - Stranger with My face, Killing Mr Griffin, I know What You Did Last Summer, etc. They're actually very good and she was updating them for modern audiences, and talked about how many of the plots could basically be resolved in 5 minutes with cell phones and social media. So the new versions all have some issue that knocks those devices out of consideration.

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One that always killed me was in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, nearly every problem in every episode could have been resolved or made easier with the use of cell phones. I never understood why Joss Whedon of all people didnt write them into the show, but I guess it would not have had much of a storyline then. Half of every episode was them running back and forth from the school to the graveyard.

Ronnie said:

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Is it just me or would anyone else love to read a historical fiction full of anachronisms like that. I'd find it hilarious.

The knight dismounted the horse, entered his home and heated a hungry man dinner in the microwave.

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You can. These exist in the tens of thousands as free user published books/short stories/novellas on line, on Kindle, etc. Unlike shows like MST3K or podcasts like "how did this get made?", people generally don't enjoy reading and mocking terrible books like they do terrible films.