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There's a specific fanfic I'm writing where I usually paste plot holes over with "No one in the military ever knows wtf is going on, so neither does my POV character."

Not good enough for published fiction, probably, but good enough for what I'm doing 😂

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Kidding aside, I've never seen any plot holes in your stuff. I'm very finicky about the use of that term, since a lot of the time people throw it around without understanding what it means. It means a serious continuity error, a failure of internal logic within the story itself. So since I haven't seen any of that with you, that either means you're joking--you do that--or that your system works. But I'm not sure how trying to distract from a plot hole would work. Seems to me it would make the problem worse. So. Plot hole. ;)

christopherlyons
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When I see my plot holes I fill them with lore. “Wait how does that make sense” magic system lore time

Manicaliii
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This is the real writing advice right here.

azarkiem
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I just go with the ‘think of the smartest thing you can, and if that doesn’t work, think of the dumbest thing you can’ lmao

rat_massacre
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My favourite is just having one of the characters point it out in universe and acknowledge that it doesn’t make sense and then you put in another character that either
A. Agrees with them but is like “Yeah… that is weird… anyway you want some beer?”
B. Gaslights them to hell and back “You are crazy, why always so paranoid, you see issues where there are none, calm down”
I think it’s a funny way to acknowledge your shortcomings but keep the story going.

claracatlady
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One clear benefit to the stories I’m writing is that you can blame quite a lot of plot holes on the eldritch puppet masters present in the narratives. If the historical records don’t match up it’s totally because the god-machine did a little whoopsie when redacting traces of its existence, and not me being unable to keep track of everything.

Thebearabides
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Simple and effective, I can respect that

jrojala
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So long as you're not writing 3rd Person Omniscient (or at least doing each scene from a specific person's POV), you can always just say "It was what that character knew/believed at the time".

At least so long as you don't pull a blizzard and retcon your retcons that were meant to be a definitive guide (and even says so in both the advertising and foreword) by saying "Oh, well that was written from the POV of someone who was dead when it happened"

MurasakiTsukimaru
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I don't think I can follow your advice when my editors are asking "Hey, didn't you kill that guy six chapters ago?"

MurasakiTsukimaru
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The best way to fix plot holes imho is to have a clear character arc and match it against the other character arcs. This gives you both a sense of where the plot holes are and where you are likely to encounter them. If you do this regularly, you can then leverage plot holes to propel narrative in creative ways.

andrearaimondi
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Why create plot holes? I start to make a story around some issues 😂
Then the plot is added. Usually some murder mystery. Then, after timeline is checked everything goes smoothly. Fuelled by main character’s issues 😂

morieann
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To be a good artist is to know your audience after all!

GoblinNiz
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I'm going to add that to a very long catalog of your good advice

JamesRamey-ru
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Is there a difference between dynastic drama and daddy issues, or is it just a matter of perspective?

AdrianColley
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My wife might love your books. ( I have to admit I have horribly dry taste in what I read.)

torreydunn
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I'm currently unaware of any potential plot holes in the stories I'm writing, so I don't fully know how to fix any

Archiver_Studio
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Hard to solve a 'there are two 1937s in this story' with daddy issues...basically I had chapters set in January 1937, summer 1937, fall 1937...then spring 1937...

😂

I had to do some serious timing crunching to make it work...

dclark
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The only plot hole I have in your books is the fact that Thadred should have been able to deduce things quicker than seeing his sister in Bastards Honor. Or even if he did forget, he should have been like who could I have been so stupid to forget our interrogation of Vesha’s hand servant

steakismeat
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That is too funny and probably really useful.

danmorgan