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Spent 4 hours trying to fix a plot hole that didn't exist
I was writing a mystery story last night and got stuck on this one timeline issue. I kept thinking a character couldn't have been in two places at once. After 4 hours of rewriting scenes and checking maps, I realized I had misread my own notes. Turns out the dates were a month apart the whole time. Has anyone else burned a whole evening chasing a problem that wasn't even there?
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kevin_flores5mo ago
Gotta push back on this one. Those 4 hours weren't wasted at all. You caught a potential issue and dug into it until you proved it was fine. Way better than skipping it and having a reader tear apart your story later because you missed something real. Plot holes are like termites man, you gotta check every board even if most of them are clean.
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shah.olivia5mo ago
Does one reader really notice that kind of stuff though?
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