Remember when I told you about all those mistakes, continuity errors, even embarrassing misspellings (thank God for spell check or I would have spelled misspellings wrong) I made in “The Mockingbirds” that my copy editor caught? One of those things she paid attention to was the daily class schedule of my main character! I know — pretty specific, right. But pretty important. My novel, after all, is set in boarding school and a number of scenes take place in the classroom. So it’s kind of important to make sure if Alex (my main character) has English for first period in chapter five that she also has it for first period in chapter ten.

This go-round as I write “Mockingbirds2″ I made a class schedule for Alex. That class schedule is part of my Scrivener file that I am writing the novel in and that way anytime I write a scene in a classroom, it’s very easy to double check if I’m being consistent with Alex’s class schedule.

I suppose we writers can be trained…