Keeping Everything Straight

 One of the toughest things I’ve found (besides taking liberties with science) working on my book is keeping everything straight.

Continuity is important to a story. Especially since I want the storyline to make sense and follow a certain path of logic. When I started this project, I had a clear vision in my mind of the type of story I wanted to tell and what I wanted my characters to experience. However, once I started telling the story, things started taking on a life of their own.

Regarding the science, I am in no way an expert in physics, biology, astronomy, or any other branch, but I do want what happens to be believable. So I’ve been doing a lot of research to determine if what I want to happen is at least theoretically feasible. This in turn has forced me to change situations and events. 

Making these changes sometimes means making a major rewrite. This then may alter the action in the story. Then I have to comb through the story and catch any minuscule events that would throw the whole story out of whack.

I have written over 55,000 words and 48 chapters and I’m constantly going back to the beginning to see if what just happened makes sense. Sometimes this has resulted in major discrepancies, but it also, I think, has made my story better.

So if going back through and changing something I’ve already written and committed to is going to make all of the plot twists and turns seem straighter to my reader, then so be it.

Let the story continue to be told as it should be.