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A rare thing from me - an actual blog post! On continuity and spinoffs...

http://www.tim-arnot.com/continuity/

I've had the same issue because the various Land of the Three Seas stories do overlap and events in one book can be foreshadowed or referred back to in others.
I was lucky in that the history happened first before ever I wrote the first book, so the skeleton is there.
But as you say, when you actually write it, you suddenly discover the different viewpoints and angles on the story

I love the way you can find yourself in a labyrinth - and the way you manage to get out of it. I also love Socko, by the way! I'm a sucker for sensible young men. :)

And the rest of you... ;)

That's handy - lots of Socko coming up... ;)

One of the advantages of being SP is that it's very easy to sneak little extra details into a revision if you find that continuity needs a helping hand (i.e. if you rely on something that someone said/did/saw in an earlier book, you better make sure that they actually said/did/saw it). Although I think that's probably the literary equivalent of the Kobayashi Maru.

I was nominated by Andy Barrett -- the real life Socko -- to join the WIP blog tour, and so I've scribbled some stuff about what's coming... :)

http://www.tim-arnot.com/work-in-prog...