General tightening and getting people’s motivations down and whatnot. Also seeing continuity errors on my own, but that’s to be expected. I’ve yet to write a book that didn’t have at least one major mistake in the first draft. From what I can tell, nobody can.
GHOSTS ON AN ALIEN WIND remains on track, as such things go.
There’s an interesting filter there. You are filtering on those who can *actually produce books*. In the spaces I hang out in, I’ve noticed a pretty clear inverse relationship between “How careful is the author about making sure that everything fits together properly with no continuity errors or similar internal inconsistencies or anything” and “how quickly can the author produce actual text fit for external consumption.”
Personally, I tend pretty severely towards the “everything is internally consistent” side. My update rate is… not what one might prefer.
So yeah. If you’ve produced an actual book, and you’ve produced it in anything resembling a reasonable professional timeframe, then it makes a lot of sense that you would have had to be pouring stuff out too quick to catch all of the potential errors that might have cropped up.