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Q&A How does a person go about describing a place/experience that they never personally experienced before, like a circus?

Find good Beta Readers It would be lovely if you had the time to become an expert in all the various different facets of life which are involved in your story. But you don't. Nobody has time for...

posted 7y ago by Arcanist Lupus‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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#3: Attribution notice added by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T07:40:00Z (almost 5 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision by user avatar Arcanist Lupus‭ · 2019-12-08T07:40:00Z (almost 5 years ago)
## Find good Beta Readers

It would be lovely if you had the time to become an expert in all the various different facets of life which are involved in your story. But you don't. Nobody has time for that, and you have a story to write. So do as much research as you can, fill in the blanks as best as possible, and then have people who **are** experts read your story and identify the things that jar them out of it.

In this case that means finding people who _have_ attended circuses. It would be even better if you could find someone who works for a circus, but that's probably significantly harder, so take what you can get.

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2018-01-11T03:30:42Z (almost 7 years ago)
Original score: 2