lizvogel

I'm almost tempted to enquire whether we were in the same Horrible Ex-Writers Group, since they did exactly that (though perhaps there's a manual for running a critique group, badly.) And then when I did put in details about appearance (such as the fact that my heroine wasn't wearing any underwear under her riding habit, because it was an important characterisation detail both for her and the chap who realised this important detail only after she'd got soaked through trying to rescue someone who'd fallen off his horse into a flooded ditch they whinged that not wearing underwear was a very out of period thing for a Victorian lady to do, and had I thought through the implications and wasn't the anachronism going to throw readers out of the story? Honestly, for a bunch who parrotted "Show, don't Tell" at every opportunity, they hated being shown stuff without an explanation.