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New Drop Chapter Three
BrainFireBob:
No.
There are three kinds of authorial insights for a work in progress.
Statements of intent: These are subject to change
Statements of fact/explanation/clarification: These are revelatory, canon statements about why who did what and why. These are things the reader waits for the author to reveal, because they are already part of the story. What happened at Justin's that last day, for instance. These should be treated generally as canon factual.
Statements of "I never considered that, and will now make something up."
Butcher has no intent of bringing in the Oblivion War, so appearances by Oblivion War opportunences are flavor text for the reader- the reader knows the "why" of the Archive, if theycread the shorts. For story purposes, in the "main" plot, it has been sufficient to know the "what" of the Archive.
Shorts are canon, but it's poor writing practice to make them prime narrative required. They're expansions, not story progressions.
Now, if Butcher WoJ that Peabody's swamp-smelling portal was to where Cowl was whrn accessing the Deeps, that's a WoJ of the first type.
Dina:
But unless it is written in the book, things that "already happened" can change. For instance, Jim could have written GS thinking that the man who hears Harry was Tera West child, but he could decide that in book 18 things he will have him again and having him being Mortimer's long lost brother and not at all related with Tera. He has every right to change any background he wishes, as long as he is not contradicting what is written.
--- Quote from: Arjan on June 22, 2020, 08:09:00 AM ---No but Mab will die at the start of the apocalyse, Molly will be queen and gets a nice litter of changelings with Ramirez ;D
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That was my point. Morris theory remind me to all the times Ms Duck spend spreading around her Molly is Mab theory. It involved time travel I believe, but you should have witness the commotion here in the forums when Molly became the Winter Lady (thus effectively in the right path to become Mab). It was like an explosion :).
Arjan:
--- Quote from: morriswalters on June 22, 2020, 05:07:13 PM ---OK. WOJ's are off the table for arguments. ::)
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Not necessarily. They give a good idea about how he thinks about it at that moment and what he wants to tell about it. Ideas about how he interprets things. But a woj from ten years back is to necessarily exactly how it works now.
Mira:
--- Quote from: Arjan on June 22, 2020, 06:57:23 PM ---Not necessarily. They give a good idea about how he thinks about it at that moment and what he wants to tell about it. Ideas about how he interprets things. But a woj from ten years back is to necessarily exactly how it works now.
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Exactly, and it may come as a total surprise to some, but Jim stuck to some of the "how it was going to be" from ten years back it may not work at all.
morriswalters:
--- Quote from: Dina on June 22, 2020, 06:43:17 PM ---Morris theory remind me to all the times Ms Duck spend spreading around her Molly is Mab theory. It involved time travel I believe, but you should have witness the commotion here in the forums when Molly became the Winter Lady (thus effectively in the right path to become Mab). It was like an explosion :).
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I not going to support my theory, and it doesn't matter if anyone believes it. It's the ending that I'm creating in my head for the books I won't get to read. It needn't be right, it just needs to match whatever facts I have when I get to whatever will be my last book. More than likely Battle Ground. I pretty much have it in my head now.
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