WIP Challenge Check-in, Day 11 -- Tuesday

[linaewen]

Hello on Tuesday!  What kind of a writing day has it been today -- or yesterday, if today hasn't gotten going yet?

•     I thought about my fic once or twice
•     I wrote
•     I did some planning and/or research
•     I edited
•     I've sent my fic off to my beta
•     I posted today!
•     I'm taking a break
•     I did something else that I'll talk about in a comment

Tuesday Discussion - Have you ever run into the problem of discovering continuity errors in your story/chapter, after it has been posted/published?  How do you deal with that?

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[linaewen]

If I get any writing done today, it will be a miracle -- which is typical for a Tuesday!

In my early days of writing, I once discovered that, after I had killed off a character, I had used him again much later in the course of a long multi-chapter story. This was discovered after I had published the chapters. After I got over the embarrassment (and the irritation that no one reading the story at the time had actually noticed, either), I went back and rewrote the later section and made it a different person. I had the satisfaction of knowing the problem was fixed, and that if anyone else read the story, it would be right. Since then, I have usually been able to catch myself before I write something that disagrees with something I wrote previously, which is one reason I like having a detailed outline reminding me what I've written and where I'm going.