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Continuity bites
Mar. 10th, 2005 04:18 pmBook 1: This kid gets described as having his room all decorated with dragons--dragon sheets, big stuffed dragon, etc. It's an obsession that started shortly beforehand, when he saw a video of them racing on a planet where they were real.
Book 2: The kid is on a different planet, at a marketplace with his mother and her companions (I wouldn't go so far as to say 'friends,' all things considered). Everyone else is making a fuss over the stall that sells actual pet dragons, but the kid wants to go get dessert. His father says that to someone who's grown up on ten different planets, dragons are just another alien life-form.
They are both minor details, unimportant to the plot overall. But they're both good details, and part of lines I'm rather attached to. And now I've got to cut or change one of them. Kids can get over obsessions pretty fast, right? Because I do, in fact, need the kid to go get dessert, but also need to have the dragon stall present (there's some useful characterization for someone else involved with it). I also don't want to dump the dragon sheets, and there's no other convenient mythological creature to put in their place. I may have to, though.
This is a really silly little darling not to want to murder, isn't it? I'll do it, I'm just going to kvetch first.
Book 2: The kid is on a different planet, at a marketplace with his mother and her companions (I wouldn't go so far as to say 'friends,' all things considered). Everyone else is making a fuss over the stall that sells actual pet dragons, but the kid wants to go get dessert. His father says that to someone who's grown up on ten different planets, dragons are just another alien life-form.
They are both minor details, unimportant to the plot overall. But they're both good details, and part of lines I'm rather attached to. And now I've got to cut or change one of them. Kids can get over obsessions pretty fast, right? Because I do, in fact, need the kid to go get dessert, but also need to have the dragon stall present (there's some useful characterization for someone else involved with it). I also don't want to dump the dragon sheets, and there's no other convenient mythological creature to put in their place. I may have to, though.
This is a really silly little darling not to want to murder, isn't it? I'll do it, I'm just going to kvetch first.
