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Series Writers: Stop Timeline Plot Holes Before They Eat You Alive

The dead-simple habit that will save your series

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Monalisa Foster
Dec 21, 2025
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I knew better, but I did it anyway. I was trying to convey, to a modern, connected readership with instant communication and fast, varied modes of transport, that we had entered an “earlier” time despite Threading the Needle taking place in the future. I didn’t want to skip the worldbuilding for the fact that it took weeks to travel from point A to poin…

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