you miss when you’re reading your own work. your mind just fills in the correction.
how do you write? did you do individual character development before doing the full plot?
for the fleet series, i always start with the theme of the book. for instance, the first book was literature, the second art and the third music. from there i work on the puzzles tied to that theme.
since it’s a series, a lot of the character development carries over from the previous books. on the whole, my stories are more character driven than plot driven. i build from the inside out. i build the plot around the characters and the situations they 