WIP Read-Thru Results

The read-thru on Ghosts Book 2 went about like we expected. We really like what we’ve got so far, and we didn’t uncover anything drastic. There were a couple of minor things that we flagged, which mainly have to do with continuity.

In particular, there’s a location that gets described a bit differently in different scenes. This is not just the color of an armchair or which way the window faces. It’s an elaborate locale, which it must be in order to play host to weird and supernatural events that will come up later. We went out of our way to get this place on the page ahead of time, and to give the characters a chance to explore it. This also gave us a chance to invent the fiddly details that will come into play eventually, which we unfortunately seem to have reinvented when we described the spot the second time. This is most likely a case where Kent did one of the affected scenes and Jen did the other, and each of us approached it as if we were introducing the location.

But that’s okay! It just gives us a surfeit of good stuff to draw from when we deal with continuity bobbles during revision.

A writing partner can see things from another angle.