Date: 2015-02-21 11:30 pm (UTC)
inevitableentresol: a Victorian gentleman with the body of a carrot (Default)
I really like doing research but I don't strive to be completely accurate in my fiction, especially at the expense of pacing.

I think less of a book or a movie when they get basic facts wrong - like in the Winter Soldier, when neither the writers nor the characters, supposedly top intelligence officers, seemed to know what biometric security was. That was laughable. But I also don't think much of clunky pacing.

It really depends. Like you say, if only experts are going to be annoyed, it's probably worth it. The problem is that it can be hard to gauge what facts are generally known and what aren't. What is common knowledge can change very quickly. All it takes is a leap in technology or an unexpected global news story.
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