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Question of the day thread number 2!
RokofAges75:
I'm sure I do, but inconsistencie s with characters and plot usually aren't my problem - I have a pretty good memory for details, and I do a lot of outlining, rereading, and fact-checking, which helps with that.
What annoys me about my older stories are things I could have done a much better job at researching in order to write accurately and did not. One of my early fanfics was a story about Brian getting addicted to painkillers, and being a naive 15-year-old at the time, pre-AJ's rehab, all I really knew about drugs and addiction were what I'd learned in DARE and 9th grade health class LOL. Needless to say, that story is embarrassingly bad. Even with Broken, I put a lot of effort into researching Nick's medical issues and, other than giving him a type of cancer that is more common in children, did a pretty solid job of it, but I dropped the ball on Claire's side of things. This is why I don't write anything without looking it up nowadays and probably spend more time "researching" than I spend actually writing LOL.
Pengi:
I've found some incosistencies going back through, but I reread the last 2 chapters every time I sit down to write a new chapter before starting so I do an okay job remembering plot bits and little details in my stories that I bring back up and use later in the plot. I plant a lot of these along the way.
I also research things pretty heavy before I use them in a plot, or I've got personal experience with the topic on hand, or something that I'm basing my story on. For example, Brian's sickness in Something Beautiful was the same as my mother's and even though I edited out almost all the medical-related scenes that I'd written for the story in favor of it being more about the road trip than the sickness (SB was sooo different before I started posting it I swear it was lol), it carried a certain amount of authenticity simply by being something I knew about.
But yes I have problems with inconsistencie s more in the fact that I'll come up with a REALLY STELLAR idea and then I can't use it because somewhere it contradicts something I've already posted. (cough, Time Watcher has this problem, cough... Which is why I can't finish it yet because I need to figure out how to get from Point A to Point B without contradictions, or find a Point C I like better than Point B).
mare:
I usually go back and reread the last chapter I write before going on to try to prevent inconsistencie s, especially in my action/ adventure ones like Lurks & Whatever the Night which have so many plot twists & turns going on.
With the latter one though, I caught two huge mistakes long after I posted it. One I caught a long time ago and that was a scene where a barn exploded & then a few chapters later there they are in the barn lol the other I just found since Julie is reading it, after she mentioned Shea I had to go back and read it and sure enough I had changed the location if the tear without any explanation at all!! lmao
I give anyone who has read this story credit for not asking me wtf happened to the stadium? I know I would have asked! I find the biggest mistakes I make, go back to the names again! I tend to forget what my smaller characters names are and I have to go back and search so I can remember and not randomly start calling them something else lol which I'm sure I've probably done at one point.
myconfession:
--- Quote from: Pengi on July 05, 2012, 03:02:24 PM ---Karah - I didn't know you used Charlie (Charlotte) too. Which story was she in?
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LOL Yep, for "Turn Right." She's a NASCAR driver. The guys are picked as the celebrity spokesmen for NASCAR for the year (like Kelly Clarkson was a few years ago), and they have the film a commercial with the driver... they don't realize Charlie is a girl. LOL
I almost used the name Andy, but went with Charlotte because it's the home of NASCAR lol
myconfession:
--- Quote from: mare on July 05, 2012, 04:51:29 PM ---Tonight's question:
Have you ever written a story and then found a lot of inconsistencie s in either the plot or a character after it has been posted? I ask because of finding a few glaring errors in my last one lol
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I'm usually pretty good at remembering, especially for small details that might not seem like a big deal at first, but plays a bigger part in the story later. I also tend to make notes sometimes too and go back to it every so often.
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