MRavenell
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I almost never have this issue. I'm kind of surprised at how many people say they do.
Every once in a while I have to head back and check a detail (more like when something happened, who knew what when etc than what happened) but it's pretty rare. And one of my manuscripts is um... long. >_> Like 250,000+ words. The course of events is actually intended to be several books but it's all in one manuscript right now.
Out of curiosity, for people who say they don't recall details, do you write from outlines and notes? Or do you just set events into motion and let things grow from there? I wonder if it has to do with how the memory of the writing is made in our brains.
But I did recently have the experience of picking up a manuscript I stopped working on in August of 2009 (I remember the day, for some reason, I just lost all interest in it) and tossed it in my slushpile. I dug it out and read through it. I remembered all the major characters's names, but I couldn't remember ANYTHING that happened. Not a damn thing. Nothing. But I do remember things that happened in other manuscripts that have sat abandoned for a lot longer. So bizarre.
Every once in a while I have to head back and check a detail (more like when something happened, who knew what when etc than what happened) but it's pretty rare. And one of my manuscripts is um... long. >_> Like 250,000+ words. The course of events is actually intended to be several books but it's all in one manuscript right now.
Out of curiosity, for people who say they don't recall details, do you write from outlines and notes? Or do you just set events into motion and let things grow from there? I wonder if it has to do with how the memory of the writing is made in our brains.
But I did recently have the experience of picking up a manuscript I stopped working on in August of 2009 (I remember the day, for some reason, I just lost all interest in it) and tossed it in my slushpile. I dug it out and read through it. I remembered all the major characters's names, but I couldn't remember ANYTHING that happened. Not a damn thing. Nothing. But I do remember things that happened in other manuscripts that have sat abandoned for a lot longer. So bizarre.