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marlynnofmany · 2 months ago

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One delightful thing about being a writer is when you get to make references to your own stuff.

The new space shanty sung by one character turns out to be based on something that happened to the other recently. And the same song will probably be years-ago history in the thing I'm going to write next week.

I always loved that sort of thing in the books I grew up reading. "OMG the ghost in this one scene is the main character from that other trilogy! And these other characters are reading a history about the stuff that happened in the first books! I am going to read this very carefully."

It's pretty awesome to be able to do bits of that same thing in my own writing. Even if I'm the only one who ever gets some of the more obscure references, I'm having a great time with them.

#writer life #amwriting #The Token Human #I'm planning the next story early #while also planning what to add to the draft of the sequel novel #writing in two timelines at once is a challenging dance #but fun #especially when I get to immortalize bits of it all in space shanties #love those #also I'll never get over the ghost thing #that was a great scene #Mercedes Lackey does this kind of callback well #easter eggs for the readers #I've always wanted to do the same thing #it's very fun #even in small doses

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