Gabriel Garcia Marquez, one of my favorite writers, once stated that his book One Hundred Years of Solitude had 99 mistakes. Seeing my experience with Wind Follower, I can TOTALLY BELIEVE this.
Okay, unlike Marquez, I didn't forget I had killed off a character and have said character show up later. (I know better than to write: "All in the house were killed that night." Generalizing like that is just asking for trouble.)
Okay, I'll be the first to be painfully honest here....
I'm not talking about typos...Heck...that's not my fault. It's the copy-editor. Granted I should type and proof better but, well....
I'm talking about errors of continuity: Did I say it was night? If so, why, three paragraphs later, is the sun shining? I did this TWICE!!!
I'm talking memory lapses: Did I give the Third Wife brown hair at the beginning and make it red later on? I can only imagine what I did with eye color.
I'm talking unintentional humor because of bad editing and/or purple prose: "Standing in front of me, his fingers played upon my lips."
I'm talking about "the missing scene" which you should have written but simply didn't think of writing until the book had been published a year: I SOOO wish I had written a scene where Loic finds the body of a discarded decomposing newborn baby.
Now, who will I tag with this meme?
I think I'll tag Stacia Kane,
Greg Banks, moondancerdrake
Then tag three other people.
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I didn't get tagged, but I'll bite. I had trouble in my first Rose book remembering who spoke what language. I remember in one scene I had Torchay merrily chatting away with a guard when he'd been locked up--and a day or so later, realizing he didn't speak the guard's language. Fortunately, I remembered before too very long and was able to fix it.
Hi Gail:
I didn't tag you cause I didn't know if you had a blog. Sorry about that. Am glad you could fix it.
-C
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