OK, from the title I bet you're thinking "it's just what everyone else is going to think when they read your book".
Anyway here's my problem. My story is set in the present day. The MC is in her early twenties and is at university. After an inciting incident, she decides to go onto a seedy retro chat room to get her groove on with other like-minded patrons. There are reasons I chose a chatroom instead of discord, or Facebook, or even a phone app like tinder, and that's because she wants zero human interaction and complete anonymity. I didn't want anything that could link back to her, have strict rules about what she can or can't say in the chat, but most importantly, it doesn't ask for a picture. I've constantly written that the main character is a fan of 80s and 90s nostalgia, so the modern stuff doesn't appeal to her.
Now, I've sent my book to an editor that does free beta reading, and the first thing they said was "kids nowadays wouldn't use chat rooms."
Is it my problem that I haven't emphasised the reasons why I chose it. Or are all people going to make assumptions straight away, saying this is unbelievable? No woman in her early twenties would use something like that?
Anyway here's my problem. My story is set in the present day. The MC is in her early twenties and is at university. After an inciting incident, she decides to go onto a seedy retro chat room to get her groove on with other like-minded patrons. There are reasons I chose a chatroom instead of discord, or Facebook, or even a phone app like tinder, and that's because she wants zero human interaction and complete anonymity. I didn't want anything that could link back to her, have strict rules about what she can or can't say in the chat, but most importantly, it doesn't ask for a picture. I've constantly written that the main character is a fan of 80s and 90s nostalgia, so the modern stuff doesn't appeal to her.
Now, I've sent my book to an editor that does free beta reading, and the first thing they said was "kids nowadays wouldn't use chat rooms."
Is it my problem that I haven't emphasised the reasons why I chose it. Or are all people going to make assumptions straight away, saying this is unbelievable? No woman in her early twenties would use something like that?