thoughtfulI've created templates and blank pages to use as guides for the various types of page -- this is what a character needs, this is what a place needs, this is what a fae race needs. And this is forcing me to really face the fact that despite having a continuity guide the length of a novel, there's a lot of stuff that simply has never been written down.
Talk about a way to make me start twitching.
It's natural that the continuity guide would be slightly out of date: I have, after all, finished and submitted two full-length manuscripts since January, with a third currently under review prior to submission. I'm in the process of writing and editing the fourth book, and yeah, the fifth is absolutely sitting in the queue waiting for me to attack it. (I'm planning to direct all this attention squarely on Rosemary and Rue when I start having things like 'a release date,' but as I am secretly an atomic-powered robot from the future, I have a lot of energy to spare just now.) It's just...
I think part of me always thought that when I wasn't looking, all the upcoming plot twists and complications and that little subplot I'm planning in book seven and and and all just...appeared in the continuity guide. They were written down somewhere. I could get hit by a bus, and one of my friends could finish the series.
Clearly, this is not the case. And just as clearly, I've got a lot of continuity to do.
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