live publishing

The Joys of Live-Publishing

​Oh the fun I have. The other night when I published the latest update to The Price of Entanglement,​ I described a minor character, Midori, as being Japanese.

This is the sort of thing that happens when I write really, really late at night (or in the morning, as the case may be,) and am very tired and not paying enough attention.​

All of the Prices stories take place in a fictional world that bears some close resemblances to our own, but they're developmental and cultural similarities, n​ot geographical or political similarities. There is no Japan in this world. Midori is supposed to evoke someone of Asian origin, but she can't actually be from Japan, unless I start going all alternate-dimensional. (I don't plan to do this. At least not with these stories.)

​I noticed this while writing today's delayed update to the story. When I next collect chapters, the correction will have been made.

This is what makes writing in other worlds both fun and challenging. I have total freedom to create whatever I want, but then I become responsible for not only maintaining the consistency of the world, but also of ensuring I don't start accidentally blending worlds together, be it a fictional world with the real world, or two fictional worlds that aren't supposed to touch.

Onward with the story!​