Things I haven't had to think about until right this minute

[ksmith]

1) Do Haarin keep pets? If yes, do they take them aboard ships?
2) Haarin criminal investigative procedure--yes or no?

I have heard people complain that important cultural aspects/plot points in series sometimes turn up only as needed, with no build-up in previous books. Well, Tricky-Woo, if you could have foreseen the need to answer those two questions about the time of, say, LAW, you're a better man than I am, Gunga Din, and you can finish writing this book.

*mutter*

Comments

[naomikritzer]

I had a really great idea as I was working on Freedom's Sisters. If I'd thought of it before, I totally would have put in some hints. As it stands, I have to hope my clever readers find some hints and assume I put them in there on purpose.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

I have in the past known the incredible rush that comes when a plot point hits you and you realize that somehow your backbrain--which possesses psychic abilities--foresaw your need for set-up and dropped totally innocuous items a book or two earlier THAT MAKE IT ALL WORK.

Backbrain must have had the day off on the day it needed to think of pets and criminal investigations.

I think I can pull it off. I pretty much have to at this point. But some set-up would have been nice...