The hardest part is keeping it all straight
I recently read The Gathering Storm, the 12th volume of The Wheel of Time fantasy series. For those who don’t know, the author, Robert Jordan, died after completing book 11, but he left behind about a gazillion notes and so now another author, Brandon Sanderson, is finishing the series. And at one point while reading the book I noticed that a character was in a completely different country than where she’d been in the previous scene. And I thought, if I noticed it, why didn’t Sanderson!?
Well, I can now tell you: It’s really frickin’ hard.
Some mixups from my last few days of writing (and I have only part of one book and nowhere near the thousands of characters in the WoT):
- a five minute scene started in the morning and ended at night…the day before
- I sent my characters to play miniature golf…in November…inMichigan…while wearing church clothes
- a guy working a 9 to 5 job was home showering at 3:30 on a weekday
- a bottle of white wine mysteriously changed to red
You get the picture.
So what silly mixups have you found in your own writing?
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