I've fixed a few continuity errors during all this note taking, but this is rather worth highlighting. Obviously editing while in insane levels of pain, stuck in bed, not an environment very conducive to finer points and some things slipped through (they always do!). Really, I'm shocked the novel is as coherent as it is. I remember I had to rewrite the whole last conversation with Ceinwyn because it felt too rushed and I wanted more between the characters (it was largely just Strange reading the Lady's letter and being like, okay, this is my life now!), but...don't remember doing it. Actually I remember being on my side, with a pen and paper, slathering up Biofreeze so I could manage 30 minute bursts. But the words...
Weird experience these last couple days, reading your own novel and to not remember what you put it in! I think when the mind is in too much pain it goes a little gung-ho to protect you and blocks out whole swathes of memory, since...I know I also watched and read plenty those couple years and it's hard to recall what I saw and learned.
So, as for the error in question here, I had Dean Locke dying just after the Lady graduated and that's not accurate. He, uh, had some stuff to do before he passed. It's even in my history timeline, so...I guess I just didn't check it cuz...incredible amounts of pain and all. It now correctly reads:
The man I think of as Papa you’ll know as Theodore
Locke, our first dean. He retired a few
years after I graduated, replaced by Ludwig von Welf.
Also, I said Root had "sisters" but he only has one. So that's corrected too.
Not sure when I'll get around to uploading them into Amazon (before the new novel releases obviously). But...the noteapalooza is officially finished! Yay! Never again!
As far as Seismic Semester, we are here:
Conclude FM6, 3 Ancillary Novel Noteapalooza.
Common Errors Search-a-thon. (now that I'm using modern spellcheckers, the typo issue is SO much easier BTW)
Ellipsis Hunt and the Defuckening.ADDED: Another Pass on Sessions 89, 90, and Last 50 pages of the novel.Formatting.
Kindle Copy Edit.
Beta Reading.
Release.
So...progress, but those chapters felt very sparse and straightforward prose-wise for certain sections while I was searching through them, XX did this, then XX did that, so on. I just want to give them a little more attention before my final full look at the whole novel. Add some spice and glitter and all that.
It's coming along!
