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Sep. 12th, 2007 03:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
erastesContinuity Schmooity
Bah. I has been editing today - first ten chapters - and good gravy do you think I could keep my facts straight for two minutes altogether?
- The name of the road changes, then changes back.
- The boy's father's name changes
- A sub-character has kids at the beginning, then hasn't later.
- the house number changes
- the children's names morph
- And many morrrrrrre.......
I know - I should keep notes... but I think I know this stuff, and I probably wouldn't refer to them anyway. In Transgressions, theres a chapter towards the end when someone asks David the surname of the man he's been living with for the past year. I actually typed this into the MSS.
"I don't know," David said with a sigh, "the stupid bitch who writes this doesn't believe in making character notes."
I think I changed it before submission. *worries*
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Date: 2007-09-12 02:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-09-12 09:30 pm (UTC)Edit MOI? How dare you!!!!!
;)
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Date: 2007-09-12 03:14 pm (UTC)*snorts*
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Date: 2007-09-12 09:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-09-12 03:15 pm (UTC)This time around, I'm making NOTES.
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Date: 2007-09-12 09:40 pm (UTC):)
I'll remind of that, later...
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Date: 2007-09-12 03:24 pm (UTC)Just go on and get one darling you and David might feel better...
:)
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Date: 2007-09-12 10:05 pm (UTC)I think David has lost all faith in me...
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Date: 2007-09-12 06:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-09-12 10:06 pm (UTC)I do that!
Date: 2007-09-12 06:21 pm (UTC)I've learnt to code those things so that they show up in red on my screen in Word--then, I check for red before I declare any manuscript done.
Re: I do that!
Date: 2007-09-12 09:26 pm (UTC)Re: I do that!
Date: 2007-09-12 10:07 pm (UTC)Re: I do that!
Date: 2007-09-12 10:13 pm (UTC)"Blah blah blah - something happens here..."
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Date: 2007-09-12 06:43 pm (UTC):))
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Date: 2007-09-12 10:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-09-12 10:10 pm (UTC)*headdesk*
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Date: 2007-09-12 10:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-09-12 10:43 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2007-09-12 09:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-09-12 10:46 pm (UTC):(
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Date: 2007-09-12 09:32 pm (UTC)I think you should write the story where all your characters discuss what's happening to them and keep asking why you made them do that particular thing. You could have your own 'answers' happening offstage, so someone would come in and say (e.g.) "It's all right, Jack, She says you have to fall off the ladder because She wants you to break your leg so we can have some hurt/comfort..."
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Date: 2007-09-12 10:37 pm (UTC):)
I did something quite similar to that in fandom, for scribbulus ink's birthday one year, all the main men slashy characters were in a waiting room waiting for their slash assignments. I don't think I've still got it, even.
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Date: 2007-09-12 10:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-09-15 01:56 am (UTC)At one point when writing The Cousins,I didn't have a continuity error, but I was about to have the MC look into yet another fabulous room and describe it in excrucitating detail in his mind. What came out was this, or something like.
Todd paused in the doorway. Then he turned and looked straight out through the computer screen.
"If you make me describe one. More. Friggin'. Room. I am going to climb out of this thing and smack you so hard you won't see straight for a week."
"I'm sorry. Uh, what should I do?"
"How should I know? You're writing this thing."
It was surreal. It was also three or four in the morning.
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Date: 2007-09-15 10:54 am (UTC)