: Re: How do I find logical errors in my novel? I have completed writing a novel and have revised it many times. I am very worried that I may have made some logical mistakes, like not revealing

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Tell yourself everyone's story character by character.

While the techniques above are all good, and i think a good timeline with contentment and facts really helps, the everyone's story trick works for me. Any time after I see a movie if I want to pick it apart and see if the plot makes real sense, this is what I do, and bad movies fall apart.

What do I mean? Well authors tend to tell themselves the protagonist's story. After that they make all the other characters dance around to fit their parts. Sometimes this makes great sense, sometimes it looks like a mindless dance.

Let's look at The Terminator. Sarah Connor is the easy story. This is the one the screen writers focused on when they wrote the script. Now let's tell ourselves the Skynet story. Skynet is loosing the war against the humans. What does that look like? What is it doing day by day as the war goes on? So it's going to send back a terminator. Why? What does it think as it picks a time period? Why not kill the first human? Does it worry about altering the timeline too much? Why not then pick a time point after it's creation? Why attack Sarah in the prime of her life? Is killing the humans it's objective? Is preventingthe war a solution? Why not send a negotiator to Cyberdyne Systems?

So as we understand Skynet's story all the logical issues of the movie begin o work themselves out. We wither find motivations we may want to explain, or logic that needs to be fixes.

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