marcicat | ways I glossed over things that make no sense in my novel

Sometimes I actually recognized when things made no sense as I was writing them. Instead of figuring out how to fix them, I employed a variety of time-tested strategies to ignore them.

*POV character thinks "that makes no sense"

*someone says "I feel like I missed something"

*POV character is distracted by something during a critical plot exposition moment; no one has time to explain it afterwards

*complete denial -- events and people referenced as if there is context, but there isn't, and none of it is ever explained

*characters claim they are too tired to understand what's going on

*characters claim they weren't expecting to have to explain anything

*explanations include the phrase "it was something like that; I don't remember it that well"

*actual dialogue from the story: “That works. Explains -- all of this. Some of this, at least. Not that much, actually."