[ SECRET POST #6007 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6007 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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Comments

[fscom]

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[(Anonymous)]

Off. Yeah, writers who are building a world for a genre series should really make themselves an encyclopedia, or at least a cheat sheet, about it.

[(Anonymous)]

It used to be common to make a writer's bible for long works or ongoing series.

[(Anonymous)]

That's a good idea even if you don't think you're going to do a lot of world building because you never know. Building this cheat sheet while you go is a lot easier than trying to do it retroactively.

[(Anonymous)]

Same. This's so annoying, especially if it consurns importnant backstory points.
Some authors manage to contradict themself in a single book.

[(Anonymous)]

It never hurt Terry "alternate pasts" Pratchett to just ignore stuff that he didn't like in his own works, or found got in the way of a story. Of course, few authors are Terry Pratchett level storytellers.

[(Anonymous)]

Pratchett is so entertaining that you don't notice, or don't mind!

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, but it was also built into the Discworld universe. It wasn't like someone writing that X has blond hair and later in the same book waxing poetics about X's dark hair.

[(Anonymous)]

I personally do not care

[(Anonymous)]

There was one book I read decades ago where the author changed the name of the lead character halfway through. I was so confused until I realized what was going on and then I was confused how it got published. I feel like someone should have to read a to-be-published book all the way through as a requirement before it is published.

[kaishi]

Yes yes 1000X yes! When an author does something to contradict themselves in the next installment or whatever, I get so confused and spend way too much time trying to reconcile it.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, me too! Timelines are the worst, because then I get sidetracked with trying to figure out the math.

[(Anonymous)]

Looking at you, Tamora Pierce. How do you write a prequel and change the entire story as it was told in the aftermath? Battle Magic shares almost nothing with the account of its events in The Will of the Empress. It was like her editor was trying to avoid continuity.

[(Anonymous)]

This sounds like a good idea! Kinda like a sensitivity readers, but for continuity -- continuity readers! Or as someone else mentioned making a cheat sheet, or hiring someone who will do that for you.

[(Anonymous)]

This used to be a normal part of publishing before the industry decided that paying for actual copy editors was a waste of money.