Over 22,000 words...nearly halfway there! I changed some of Dylan's history and decided to make the story solely from her point of view. It was originally going to be split between her and Raqi, but I've realized I really don't need Raqi's all that much, so I'm just to do without it in favor of not confusing the readers. I'll have to go back and take out one small section, but it's less than a page, so I'm not too worried.
I've also made some more connections between the characters and between characters and events, basically just tying everything together a little bit more. I'm proud of that, but I'm kind of stuck at the moment. It's not that I'm really stuck with the story, because I know where it's going right now, it's more that I just ate half a pan of brownies and am really too restless to write but forcing myself to try anyway.
One thing I've noticed that I do regularly, probably one of the things that bothers me most about my own writing, is that my small details become incongruous, even when I think I'm paying attention. It's like watching a movie and seeing one of those stupid continuity errors, like the beer cup in American Pie that's blue, then red, then blue again without actually being replaced. I caught myself earlier mentioning someone being held over a campfire and then hiding under her bed. Clearly, if you're camping, you're not going to have a bed...
That's something I'm going to tell people to watch for if I reach the proofreading stage, because I know I'm bad about it. And with the number I catch, I figure there must be more I'm not catching.
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There are congruity errors in so many films. It is hard to catch them all. I am sure that i have more then a few in my own story. I am really frustrated with mine right now and need to give it a rest. It sounds like you are progressing well on yours, I hear a lot of tpyeing from that end of the room and I can only assume that is is NaNo
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