Is there a plot hole in your writing that is so bad that it destroys a lot of other things in your story. I just had to push back my latest chapter by a week cause as I was proofreading, I discovered a plot hole I accidentally put in and now have to rewrite nearly half of it and figure out what to replace it with. I just don't want to feel like I'm the only that has done this.

Yeah... I've posted some pretty problematic plot holes in my time. My first book is still a half-inconsistent mess which needs a major rewrite, but I haven't been able to muster the energy to deal with it. Good on ya, getting it actually fixed instead of procrastinating forever!

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Not until now. I had a near thing in a chapter, but I corrected myself before falling for it. Still, I don't have many chapters, so I can't say for the future.

I'm surprised/relieved/grateful no one spotted mine, and almost no one picked up on the twists 

I think most people aren't looking to poke holes in stuff they're enjoying so as long as you 'paper over them' it's fine

If I ever have a plot hole that glaring I genuinely just double-down and try to explain it away. Is it always great? No, but I think it makes it more interesting than just voiding your work. 

I think I've managed to avoid any major plot holes.

I planned out the major story beats in advance, but I leave the little details until I'm actually writing, so I don't have to define them until I need them. And then I make sure everything I write after that point conforms to the things that have been defined so far.

That leaves me some flexibility in changing events as I go, so I don't end up with plot holes.

There have been a few little things, most of which I caught and fixed before actually writing them--like, "Hmm, a group of peasant bandits isn't going to attempt an ambush against a large, heavily armed and armored group. Guess I need to rethink this sequence."

Also, since there are so many different factions, I've had to tweak some of their reasoning/justification for what they do, in order to keep all the factions and storylines in sync, and to make sure they make sense.

But I'm not aware of any real plot holes making it into the final story itself.

Plot holes? Plot holes? What are they? LOL

In reality I have had more than a few pointed out to me!

Oh yeah. Well, no. Sort of.

The main series I'm working on has time travel in it. The nature of the time travel birthed out of the general story beats of the story I wanted to tell. The problem is that the time travel in my story was very inconsistent.

Good thing this was all in the outlining phase. I managed to get around it......by creating my own time travel rules that are dependent on how big the change actually is.

The continuing problem is that my story isn't a time travel story, but the time travel plot hangs like a shadow over other arcs. So I had to work those arcs around being able to make sense in two different timelines AND having a reason for there to be a change in how events happen, even though those arcs having nothing to do with the time travel plot.

My best advice is to avoid time travel stories unless you're doing a wacky teen comedy about a boy who accidentally goes back to the past and stops his parents from meeting.

Not a single one, at least not any one I'm aware of 

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I wrote something once about a group of people stuck in a dungeon. I wrote 10 chapters, got to an actual combat sequence and then realized I'd forgotten to give any of them weapons... I don't think anyone would willingly go into a dungeon while unarmed so... yea... was re-write time.

O_Weaver Wrote: I wrote something once about a group of people stuck in a dungeon. I wrote 10 chapters, got to an actual combat sequence and then realized I'd forgotten to give any of them weapons... I don't think anyone would willingly go into a dungeon while unarmed so... yea... was re-write time.

No disrespect but that has to be the funniest thing I've heard yet. 

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Zeepolian Wrote:

Gryphon10 Wrote:

O_Weaver Wrote: I wrote something once about a group of people stuck in a dungeon. I wrote 10 chapters, got to an actual combat sequence and then realized I'd forgotten to give any of them weapons... I don't think anyone would willingly go into a dungeon while unarmed so... yea... was re-write time.

No disrespect but that has to be the funniest thing I've heard yet.

Maybe the real weapons were the friends we made along the way.

Power of friendship, plot armor, and vague descriptions

I just roll with it until I decide to fix it by elaborating on it later on or, if necessary, go back and fix it by rewrite.

Yes, and since I write everything out beforehand, I can catch a lot of them given I read through stories multiple times. I can't truly remember anything glaring. Small plotholes don't really bother me because often times a sentence or a paragraph can patch it.

What bothers me are the ones where I write a story and the premise the main plot is a plot hole. Trying to fix that means I have to fix multiple chapters and possibly remove them. This is why I don't post as I write and why I stopped being a pantser. I wanted tighter stories where if I have to fix something, it's not story breaking and ends up being a complete structural failure. Those are hard to fix because the entire story is ruined.

Heh, kind of. Something that happened very early on in my first book is still hanging. It's only the origin of two very important characters!

It will hopefully end up being explained by the end of book 4. Just waiting for a better idea than I currently have to come along. F - it.

Thankfully we've caught any big plot holes before posting. There were a few smaller ones from earlier chapters, but all that required was a single sentence change, and even then it wasn't a big hole.