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A slight flog of LKH's two latest blog offerings, in which our author confirms suspicions she just can't be bothered following through with research - even into her own universe.

Wednesday August 22 - http://blog.laurellkhamilton.org/2007/08/rereading.html - permalink
LKH in Italics - bold emphasis added by me

Threw out the two pages from yesterday. Pretty sure what's wrong. Rewrote a page, then spent the rest of the day researching.

Does the constant reference to just how many pages she produces each day annoy the hell out of anyone else? I know she's the queen of over-share but perhaps if she just STFU, sat down and didn't angst about how many pages she was producing the quality would rise... Who am I kidding - it's the quantity not quality, must remember it's all about the size with Miss L.K.

But not in an outside source. Researching in my own books. You guys reread the books. I do not. Some of you tell me that you reread all the books from the beginning every time a new book comes out. Wow. That is why you will win at Anita Blake trivia and I won't. But when I said in an earlier blog that plot threads from an earlier book are going to be followed up on, I wasn't joking. I had to find scenes from four different books today before I could be prepared to finish the current scene tomorrow.

Oh. My. Sweet. Darkity-darkness... is she going to use a plot? Is she going to use a plot with cohesive foreshadowing (is it even foreshadowing if you have to research to find it)?! Don't hold your breath Lashers because the very next day...

Thursday August 23 - http://blog.laurellkhamilton.org/2007/08/sometimes-you-have-to-give-up-to-get.html - permalink
LKH in Italics - bold emphasis added by me

I started the day in a bad mood. I didn't get to my desk until nearly two o'clock in the afternoon. That's never good. Then I sat there and stared at the screen and thought, why isn't this working? Why have I stalled out completely? Then the answer came to me? I had been pushing myself for days to finish a scene, maybe I didn't need the scene.

So, as much as I hated to do it, I dropped back nine pages, kissed them good-bye, and started this chapter over. I wasn't sure it was the right thing to do, at first, then I began to pick up steam. I realized that everything I'd been attempting to put on stage could be found out in dialogue, and it moved the plot ahead a lot more quickly. Yea!

That's right that intensive day of research to strengthen the plot was all for naught, what a shock! So much easier to just rely on our good friend Exposition!

She doesn't care at all anymore - the books aren't ever going to get better are they? *cue the tiny violin*