Gah!

[cactus-wren.livejournal.com]

One of the things that drives me insane about LKH is her inability to keep facts straight. Is is really that damn hard? I don't write, so I don't know, but it seems to me that if you had this big universe going, and it was hard to keep track of all your characters, you would have an encyclopedia of the facts to refer to.
From chapter 26 of The Whoreliquin:


Jason: I am your wolf in case your beast decides to rise.

Anita: I thought Sylvie..........

Sylvie: With the ardeur raised in the room, I'm not staying. Nothing personal, Anita, I mean you're cute but I don't do women.

(Big sidebar: IIRC, I could have sworn that Jason said in an earlier book that Sylvie liked girls. And when Padma's son raped her, it was even more evil because Sylvie was suppose to be gay. Am I crazy or am I thinking about someone else?)

Sylvie: With you this weak, Anita and JC out of it, I don't want to take the chance of the ardeur spreading throughout the room. The wolves will do everything they can to get you all through this.

Dammit, Sylvie is gay! This is one of the few facts we do know about Sylvie. Since she's written so little about this character, is it that difficult to remember this one thing? I'm so tired of her YABBI's and her sorry excuses 'oh, sorry, it's so hard to keep track of the details of so many characters - oops!' *smacks her*

From here, chapter26, at the boards.

Comments

[ladymuttly1.livejournal.com]

I actually write and am beginning to get published. I also hold a full time job that is a minimum of 50 hours a week. This week it's a 90 hour week. I'm also on deadline for an anthology.

So trust me, it's easy to screw up secondary characters.

BUT I have a friend who reads everything I write. He points out the continuity errors and I make the changes. I also pay a copywriter to proof my novels before I send them out. He does a fantastic job and charges between $150 and $250 per book depending on length.

It's called professionalism. LKH should check it out.

[randomsome1.livejournal.com]

I have character sheets. When I finally buckle down on the serious novel, I'm pretty sure I'm gonna have character posterboards.

[ladymuttly1.livejournal.com]

I'm not a very organized writer, especially since I seem to steal time to write while commuting, during lunch etc. I keep the stories in my email and go back and skim for details. That's one reason why I pay for help.

I've never used a character sheet. Is there anyplace I can get a decent outline? I'm afraid that the last character sheet I used was back in my D&D days.

[randomsome1.livejournal.com]

I didn't know there was supposed to be an outline . . . I just kinda freeformed it. The rougher ones look kinda like amoebas.

[cactus-wren.livejournal.com]

Whattaya mean? LKH has editors, she rereads and edits them and jonny-boy and darla both check them over for her! And she probably doesn't even have to pay them, they're such T-rific fans of her work! [/sarcasm]

[ladymuttly1.livejournal.com]

If they are such terrific fans shouldn't they know that Slvie is gay?

[cactus-wren.livejournal.com]

Yes, they should - hence the sarcasm. Just goes to show how much it good it does for her to have her little yes-men doing her editting.