Charlie Stross on Nostr: TFW where you're halfway through writing a manuscript and a minor character you named ...
TFW where you're halfway through writing a manuscript and a minor character you named as a joke tribute to a camp 1970s horror movie suddenly twirls his villain mustache and reveals that he's a key part of the Conspiracy driving the plot along, and suddenly you're urgently trying to backfill links to two movies everyone else has surely forgotten about, and desperately hoping nobody at MGM in 2026 reads your novels ...
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