Continuity Error

 Originally posted on June 6, 2020 at https://ailovestogrow.wixsite.com/mysite/post/continuity-error

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How are you all doing? I'm a little tired, but that seems to be my general state of being so I'm taking it very zen at the moment.

Before I forget, want to give a little notice to Jim Dragon for posting a review on GR. Thanks! Happy to give you my own little blend of LGBT with urban fantasy and some shapechanging to boot. Wow, looks like I ticked all your boxes. Anyway, I hope to tick off more boxes for as many people as I can!

As the title suggests, I ran into a bit of a continuity error when I was starting up on Chapter 20. It wasn't a small thing, it was kind of a big thing. Like a pimple on someone's face...the size of a baseball: it can't be ignored and has to be popped immediately for the sake of humanity. I can't say what the error was right now because it would give away what I've been hiding for so long as the main plot thread of Book 2. Suffice it to say, I needed to fix the error before I could go any further.

I used to do this A LOT in Book 1. I'd be writing along on my merry way when SUDDENLY, I'd realize I'd screwed up. Once these mistakes were found, I'd have to stop absolutely everything until I fixed all of it.

ALL. OF. IT.

I've probably read most of the text in Book 1 about 30-50 times, combing through every inch until I found every grain of CE sand and brushed them all away. In some ways, it is good writing to know I'm that attentive to detail and need to make sure everything fits together. On the other hand...

In the movie The Incredibles, there is a 2 hour Making Of doc about the process Brad Bird and Pixar went through to make the movie. In the middle of that, Bird talks about how they put together the dinner scene. Apparently, whole divisions of animators were put in charge of dinner continuity. Making sure the plates stayed where they were and that from cut to cut the food stayed in the same place as it was from the last cut. This all cumulated into a large meeting and fight where one guy screams out "Yes, but can we return to the matter of the broccoli?"

(I think that's the quote, but I can't be sure because I'm doing this from memory and there isn't a video online to watch this. I haven't watched that doc for over a decade. You'll have to check my continuity with your own copies of the film)

The point was that Bird and Pixar realized they were getting too finicky over food continuity and they needed to get back to working on the rest of the film. Bird even points out that if you watch the dinner scene, you can probably find food continuity errors, which is the kind of phrase that makes me think I should stop twerking and get back to work.

ANYWAY, what I was trying to say before I got trapped in my own explanation is I used to do this a lot. Almost constantly. But for Book 2, y'all might remember I started everything off by taking a few weeks to write a very detailed outline. This monster is 25,000 words long right now and covers every moment of every chapter for the book (not including the end dream sequence, but it did cover the coda at the end of it). I even planned to have part of my Q&A giving theme songs to every one of the wives. This outline has allowed me to keep on target and focus on writing just what is needed instead of constantly rereading what I've written to make sure everything fits. I haven't always succeeded, I've had to go back and put some stuff in when I wrote something in the outline but it just didn't fit into where it was supposed to go. The other problem is I'm kinda OCD stuck with the number of chapters, so while I outlined things to happen when I actually write them I'm finding each chapter is getting more and more lengthy as I try to make everything fit inside my own little structure instead of properly starting a new chapter. I hope you perverts don't mind, just means there's going to be MORE smut, but I'm stuck in my own mind trap at the moment and I have no intention to change for this series. In the future, I'll probably do something else that allows me to make as many chapters as I want.

What this means in practicality is this week I finished Chapter 19. You might recall I said I finished it around Tuesday, and you would be correct. I then got started on Chapter 20 and realized the CE was a glaring and throbbing cyst full of puss and needed to be pippity popped. I currently have 130,000 words in Book 2. I had to go through all of it to find all the instances of the CE and change it.

Then, while I was at it, I reread Chapter 19 and wasn't happy. There are 2 sex scenes in there, one a (sorta) duo act that reveals a new way Honoka can use her sexual powers, followed closely by an orgy with 3 of the wives gangbanging Honoka. There are 5 distinct allocation transformations in that chapter and I'm sad to say, I didn't do them justice. I don't know what I was thinking, but you people didn't come to get half-arsed allocation descriptions. You want the gritty, drippy details. You want to know exactly how those rivulets of cum splash off a girl's tits before they slowly snake down to a sopping pussy! (hmm, that's a good one, I'm gonna have to use that). While fluffing up those details, I added around 3500 words to Chapter 19, finishing this week with around 10,000 words (UUGH! Another mega-chapter!)

I really do feel like both Lando Calrissian and Darth Vader, two halves of my psyche playing off one another.

"Lord Vader, what about consistent chapter length and balancing descriptions?"

kshhh. "They must never again be below 10,000 words."

"That was never a condition of our agreement, nor was making Honoka have sex with a Cuisinart!"

kshhh. "Perhaps you feel as if you are being treated unfairly?"

"...no."

kshhh. "Good. It would be unfortunate if I had to make all of the wives have a Rule 63 moment and beefcake it up in Book 3."

Lando shakes his head, clenching his fist as he walks away. "This deal's getting worse all the time."

For kicks and giggles, here's that scene done with much amusement by Robot Chicken: https://youtu.be/WpE_xMRiCLE .

Lastly, I have a major warning coming up. In 2 weeks, Jim Butcher's Peace Talks comes out and I intend on using sick days to get it read. Knowing me, I might even read it twice in a row to get every last detail squeezed out. Not only will this cut into my writing time, but in the 3rd half of Book 2, don't be surprised if Honoka's sass goes up a few levels and Dresden references will be dropped like carpet bombs on a German city.

Get it?! Because of the Bombing Of Dresden?! HAHAHA!!

Keep harmonizing!

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PS: Am I the only one laughing at the lewdness of my blog signoff?