Continuity party!

[seanan_mcguire]

So Chris fixed my wiki yesterday -- it was having template issues -- and I am now beginning the long, slow, deeply painful process of transitioning my Toby continuity guide. Why long, slow, and deeply painful? Well, in part because the actual document is so very, very out-dated at this point. See, I sort of hit the point where MS Word (my prior format) couldn't keep up with my hyper-links and bookmarks anymore. And when you combine that with the difficulty of searching a several-hundred page document, well...

I'm going to try finishing one page per day until the continuity wiki a) contains all the data from the original file, and b) is actually up-to-date. This is meaning lots of searching through the text of the various books, most especially Rosemary and Rue, since that's the place where continuity begins. It's going to be a lot of work.

That sound you hear is my tiny OCD heart actually jumping for joy.

I'm currently formatting Toby's page, which is going to be the single most complicated, being as she's, well, Toby, and the sheer depth of information that I can get without becoming unreasonable is just staggering.

This is awesome.

Comments

[palmer-kun.livejournal.com]

You could split Toby into multiple pages if needed.

A page for her relationship with all the other characters (love, hate, want to bitchslap, can't remember the name of, etc etc) would be quite logical, for instance. And cuts down on the amount of stuff to wade through on the main page.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Since I'm the only one using the Wiki, putting it all on a single page is the most efficient for me. But thanks for the suggestion!

[tibicina.livejournal.com]

Yay! Continuity is good, yes. Plus, it means in later years when fans ask you some insanely obcure thing (because they will), you have a better chance of having an answer.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Like remembering what book I was in when that thing with the coffee and the cornflakes and PS, Toby is a goddamn freak happened.

[tibicina.livejournal.com]

Toby's a changeling. I'm pretty sure that freak is kind of inherent in that. Also the coffee is less weird than some things to put on cornflakes. It's not like she's using coke or rootbeer or wine or chocolate sauce or something.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Well, yeah. I just need to stick it in the continuity so it doesn't get forgotten.