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Ask a novelist about the pains they have when the extremely clean, excellent plot fails due to some small point, and they have to adjust it.
by dchest 15y ago
Ask a novelist about the pains they have when the extremely clean, excellent plot fails due to some small point, and they have to adjust it.
- tytso 15y agoI can think of a number of novels where it's obvious some scenes got moved around for plot reasons, and their were continuity errors or other ways in which the seams showed. But novelists only have to deal with that for maybe a year or so; programmers have to deal with this problem for potentially decades, and at that point it's a completely different problem just because the scale is different.
- cubicle67 15y agoI'm working my way through Stephen Donaldson's latest Thomas Convenant novel (book 9), a series he started writing in the 70's (first book published in '77). He expects to have the final book (book 10) completed by Fall 2013