[stylist] Novel Outlines/research

James H. "Jim" Canaday M.A. N6YR n6yr at sunflower.com
Thu Jul 15 00:44:30 UTC 2010


oh but space and time can be negotiable, right?
jc

At 07:05 PM 7/14/2010, you wrote:
>I'm typing a story now, in which i have a person sliding into the 
>passenger side of the car twice in one paragraph.  Oh well.
>Lori
>On Jul 14, 2010, at 2:34:36 PM, "Donna Hill" <penatwork at epix.net> wrote:
>
>And, then there are those internal errors, you pick up after the
>umpteenth re read. Like realizing that you had originally placed one
>made-up location south of another, but when you revisited the subject,
>you said it was north. I also had to write a poem for one of my
>characters about the Green turtles of Brazil. I based it on a National
>Geographic article. They migrate an astounding distance to lay their
>eggs on Ascension Island and then head right back to Brazil. They don't
>migrate all the way to the North Atlantic seas, however, as I originally
>wrote -- Heaven knows why. I must have re read that thing 50 times, but
>it just finally jumped out at me last month. I'm beginning to suspect
>that -- for me at least -- it isn't possible to re read/edit my work too
>many times.
>Donna
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