Comments on: Continuity is a bitch http://www.sandrewswann.com/blog/2007/09/continuity-is-a-bitch.html thoughts and opinions by author s. andrew swann Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:14:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 By: aeros51 http://www.sandrewswann.com/blog/2007/09/continuity-is-a-bitch.html#comment-97 aeros51 Fri, 21 Sep 2007 03:55:00 +0000 http://www.sandrewswann.com/blog/?p=99#comment-97 As fans, we have simple needs, and in fact you can reduce it down to one simple requirement to keep in mind while you write: we demand PERFECTION! :-D<br/><br/>Joking aside, I quite understand, especially as I age, the difficulty in trying to remember what I did the day before, much less what I may have written a decade ago. I have yet read a series of books that was able to maintain perfect continuity throughout. At least your apparant frustration shows you are trying to keep continuity. Many authors who come back to writing about a universe don't even make the attempt.<br/><br/>aeros51<br/>(in the cheering section) As fans, we have simple needs, and in fact you can reduce it down to one simple requirement to keep in mind while you write: we demand PERFECTION! :-D

Joking aside, I quite understand, especially as I age, the difficulty in trying to remember what I did the day before, much less what I may have written a decade ago. I have yet read a series of books that was able to maintain perfect continuity throughout. At least your apparant frustration shows you are trying to keep continuity. Many authors who come back to writing about a universe don’t even make the attempt.

aeros51
(in the cheering section)

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