The reason I tend not to post WIPs... ;)

I usually don't notice such things till six months after the fact. Like I noticed something in a fic I posted freaking last year when I was reading it last night! Not sure why it popped out at me so soon this time around. I think I need to start keeping my spreadsheet up to date again. I've slacked.

LOL! I'm never that organised. For timelines, it has to make sense in my head or I simply just can't write it. I tend to have a piece of paper with a line across it and various points written on it. A bit like the "crime timeline" they always have on the whiteboard in Castle when plotting out the final hours of the victim. ;)

I have a feeling that my thought process is just generally logically inclined and anything that don't quite fit tend to just jump out at me even though a lot of the time, other people don't even notice it.

Huh... does that mean I'm a Vulcan? *goes off topic*

I don't do timelines for individual stories, but for the series I do. Otherwise I'd have to go back and reread to remember what this or that person was doing in 1765 or 1820 or 1952. Broadly, I have it in my head, but not so much remembering dates of birth, death, how long it took to take a covered wagon from Virginia to California, that sort of thing. Or what year canon characters were doing specific things in the TV show Highlander.

Oh man, for HL, I'm sure you'll need an unbroken ROLL of paper (like those in old fax machines) that goes on for... I dunno, miles! Imagine Methos' or Amanda's timeline! Well, ok, for Methos it's possible that it will go on for a few hundred years of "hiding in plain sight as a scholar in X place", but that's not the point. :P

I think the fact that the last few long-ish stories I've written tend to skip between past/present have something to do with why I have to plot things out that way.

[nods] I write a lot of stories with flashbacks, and they can be their own special hell :D