Don’t you hate it when…
In a hurry to finish off one part; just for convenience you place a character in Location A. Then later on in your eagerness to write THAT very important chapter around which, if not the whole but at least a vital part of the narrative revolves you have them appearing Location B which is many miles distant from Location A and in a circumstance which defies any good reason you can think of to explain that anomaly.
If you are very fortunate you will have dropped them off at Location A in such a casual way you can write that smidge out and in retrospect shuffle them into Location B ready for THAT chapter you have ben itching to write.
Meanwhile you look at yourself in the literal or allegorical and say:
‘Seriously?’
Writing Despite Computers and Programmes 
I thought the “cut n’ paste’ bit had solved that problem? How well I remember the stacks of “notes” with circles and arrows, numbers and letters, indicating where each comment was meant to be inserted into when the typewriter was activated again… I also remember that more often than not if a comment went in the wrong place it turned out that it was a better fit! Very little was ever discarded. With some judicial re-writing any comment could be edited to fit almost any part of the story. Was I just lucky?
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Oh it solves the practical problem alright, it’s just that one feels a complete asshat when one realises one has done it!😖
Not luck Sha’ Tara…Definitely in tune with the Muses.
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heheheh, we’ve probably all been there.
My characters often like to change their names, too, without realizing that they have to first publish it in the paper and petition the courts.
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They do like to keep us on our toes don’t they?
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