tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8281925592595958318.post482702465699450714..comments2024-01-05T19:27:47.609+00:00Comments on Janine Ashbless: Revision notesJanine Ashblesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00840188081214225153noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8281925592595958318.post-49075595834430277002017-04-07T22:46:51.126+01:002017-04-07T22:46:51.126+01:00God, continuity must be a nightmare in moviemaking...God, continuity must be a nightmare in moviemaking ... it's bad enough in a novel!<br /><br />I tried hard to find the article that revealed the "plot backward" tip to me, but I couldn't, so sorry. But yes, chain of causation!<br /><br />And thank you Kate - I really hope this last book lives up to expectations! <3Janine Ashblesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00840188081214225153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8281925592595958318.post-59398730534612172952017-04-07T05:28:21.438+01:002017-04-07T05:28:21.438+01:00That's a terrific idea! (Reading backwards) I ...That's a terrific idea! (Reading backwards) I generally just take notes as I read and then try and find what they refer to when I get to the end. There's a lot of rereading in my editing process.<br /><br />Looking forward to this next one, though I know that no matter how you finish the trilogy, I'm going to miss these characters. They're much too real to let them easily go.<br /><br />And I'm quite fond of semi-colons, too. Sometimes they just seem to make a sentence float; other times, they bog it down in the muck, but they're never dull.Kate Douglashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05486916548114546095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8281925592595958318.post-51661740069353022302017-04-07T01:55:13.187+01:002017-04-07T01:55:13.187+01:00Thank you Janine. That IS useful.
I have a friend ...Thank you Janine. That IS useful.<br />I have a friend who is a first AD in the movie biz and she tells me every so often she's the only one there who DOES know why they have the gun or where they got it from. (And they shoot out of sequence!)<br />Madeline Moorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16485601071092171174noreply@blogger.com