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Question of the day thread number 2!
RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: mare on July 05, 2012, 09:25:36 PM ---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.
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I wondered about the stadium/museum thing, but they did say the tear could be somewhere NEAR Shea Stadium, as in somewhere outside it, so I thought, "Well, maybe the museum is in that same area." I think I went to that museum in 2008, but I don't know NYC well enough to know where Shea Stadium is relative to the museum and didn't care enough to look it up, so I just went with it LOL. I did wonder how they had figured out it was at the museum, though.
I don't think I even noticed the barn thing, but skipping between past and present so much made it harder to keep track of stuff like that, so you probably did yourself a favor there.
mare:
That and the long gap between the Shea & the museum chapter although for all I know, I may have explained it in the alternative ending and don't even remember lol FAIL!!
RokofAges75:
LOL It's okay. Even Harry Potter has inconsistencie s, but if it's a good enough story, no one really cares!
Carter-Orange:
I have a major inconsistency in one of my romance stories, but it's too late to change it now, lol. These days I tend to read back on the previous chapter, and I'll also read through if I can't remember something from early on in the story.
RokofAges75:
After what Steph just said, here's a follow-up question: Does anyone go back to old stories and revise to correct their inconsistencie s? I don't mean quick fixes like correcting typos, but revisions that require you to do some actual rewriting.
And going along with that, have you or would you ever rewrite an old story from scratch just to make it better?
As a reader, how would you feel if the author of one of your favorite stories rewrote or changed it?
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