I mean who cares how many days went by between the last scene and this one?
Um — me? It makes a difference in how I expect characters to react if they've had two weeks to come to terms with what just happened, or it's later that day.
Ayup. I actually had one person email me with a request for my calendar, which hasn't ever made it into the front matter because, um, there's never been enough room for it. I tend to map out days, and geography is a part of that -- but I hate maps, and mine all look like big blobs with things jutting out of them that are just as blobby.
Otoh, as a reader I don't care. And was told by many editors that that was my perogative as a reader -- but that as a writer, I had to do the work for those readers who did care.
Not, of course, that I hold this against you. Much <g>.
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Date: 2004-07-14 08:28 pm (UTC)Um — me? It makes a difference in how I expect characters to react if they've had two weeks to come to terms with what just happened, or it's later that day.
Ayup. I actually had one person email me with a request for my calendar, which hasn't ever made it into the front matter because, um, there's never been enough room for it. I tend to map out days, and geography is a part of that -- but I hate maps, and mine all look like big blobs with things jutting out of them that are just as blobby.
Otoh, as a reader I don't care. And was told by many editors that that was my perogative as a reader -- but that as a writer, I had to do the work for those readers who did care.
Not, of course, that I hold this against you. Much <g>.