Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-35711173-20180804233042/@comment-9041013-20180807093948

DrBobSmith wrote: Bloody Spaghetti,

Having the details correct is part of my method for helping with suspension of belief. If I knew the chemicals couldn't produce a reaction then I wouldn't want somebody laughing at me and stopping in the first quarter of the story. Wanting everything to be real lifelike means you are actually unable to suspend your disbelief. I really wonder how do you handle movies that are not documentaries. Suspending the disbelief means knowing something's not real and still acting as if it is.

Anyways, I do not think most people would look up what materials are actually explosive as you probably could convince people of the impossible being possible with a good enough writing. Not that complicated really.

But, suit yourself.