CHECK IN: DAY 5

[igenlode]

It's a very cold Monday (not a good day for my boiler to go on the blink, but I think I've successfully reset it...)
Did your writing process freeze over in the course of the day, or is it flowing freely?

Question of the day: how do you handle a plot-hole if you notice one?

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[igenlode]

Having -- probably -- completed my main draft yesterday, I didn't even attempt to write anything today but took a break for it to 'settle'. I shall have to do some typing-up at some stage, but at least this one is relatvely short and I *might* manage it in one evening...

Plot-holes: I hate trying to patch things up after they are already written, but on the other hand I never check my facts until after my initial mental draft is complete, so there have definitely been occasions when I've had to do some major changes of ideas between completing the plot and starting to write it down. (At least two fics have been switched from one canon to another because facts/dates didn't fit the initial concept, and I had to alter a Moby-Dick-style whaling sequence to a seal-hunting sequence after discovering that I had completely the wrong mental image for that location and that period!)

If I'm trying to patch up an inconsistency in a text that has already been written in full, then I'm afraid I'll try to alter as little as possible, although if forced to do so I will occasionally rewrite an entire scene :-(