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things that make no sense in my novel
Dec. 4th, 2017 06:26 amAn un-numbered list, because I don't want to know the count:
*Early in the story, characters are in a forest at night, looking for a red pine. (Spoiler: they find one.) Except it's not really a spoiler because it literally never comes up again. What?
*A dog is mentioned once. Where did the dog come from? Where did the dog go? Was the dog named Cotton-Eyed-Joe?
*Is something weird going on? Ha ha, of course not, it's all just a misunderstanding and will never be explained anyway.
*Allison's family "isn't around a lot." (aka their complete absence from the story is never explained more than that)
*A to-go cup became a travel mug with zero explanation. (I had to fix this one.)
*Two instances so far of people answering questions that weren't asked or reacting to something that didn't happen. (Also fixed.)
*Shoutout to the animatronic cat joke from years ago. (NaNoWriMo 2006!)
Optimistically, I'm about halfway through. I wrote a lot of this story on different devices and emailed stuff to myself, so there was a lot of copy-pasting and auto-correct going on. It shows in some places more than others.
*Early in the story, characters are in a forest at night, looking for a red pine. (Spoiler: they find one.) Except it's not really a spoiler because it literally never comes up again. What?
*A dog is mentioned once. Where did the dog come from? Where did the dog go? Was the dog named Cotton-Eyed-Joe?
*Is something weird going on? Ha ha, of course not, it's all just a misunderstanding and will never be explained anyway.
*Allison's family "isn't around a lot." (aka their complete absence from the story is never explained more than that)
*A to-go cup became a travel mug with zero explanation. (I had to fix this one.)
*Two instances so far of people answering questions that weren't asked or reacting to something that didn't happen. (Also fixed.)
*Shoutout to the animatronic cat joke from years ago. (NaNoWriMo 2006!)
Optimistically, I'm about halfway through. I wrote a lot of this story on different devices and emailed stuff to myself, so there was a lot of copy-pasting and auto-correct going on. It shows in some places more than others.
