>Does this ever cause problems for you because of characters not doing
>what you planned for them to do (like you mentioned in the An
>Encounter at Shamrock House metametafic (the only link to that I
>can find is on the 'What's New' page, by the by; it should have
>a link under NXE, from the looks of it, but I can't find it
>there...))?

There's a link to it from the NXE:TMP page.

>Do you wind up with a fic that was ready to go
>but, all of a sudden, you have to edit or junk large chunks?

Yes, this happens constantly. It's one of the main costs of doing things out of order.

>Even
>worse, have you ever posted a fic, then gone to finish a
>chronologically prior story arc and not been able to get the ducks in
>a row? Inquiring minds wanna know.

This has also happened, yes. Indeed, occasionally developments in chronologically-earlier stories being written later have caused released segments to stop making complete sense. The only major post-release revision I can think of that I've ever done was to a UF segment, Checkmate, which suddenly became utter nonsense with the release of Twilight 5. (In retrospect, Checkmate is more or less utter nonsense anyway, and should probably just have been scrapped rather than revised, but... )

Cybertron Dreams has this kind of error in it too - several times it mentions Gryphon and Zoner in their WDF offices as of the end of Crossroads, when in fact they'll have long since left those jobs by 2412, when CD is set.

Cost of doing business in my brain, I guess...

--G.
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