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Originally Posted by Mirrored
Well, it would create another problem.
You could basically write out everything, separate it by page, and then change some of the pages the day before, add details, etc. Using that model, you could flesh out large sections and then make small changes right before-hand.
Since you keep 95% of the scenes consistent, the rest just exist for detail. For example, a typhoon isn't even really needed for Rokkenjima to be a closed island. If you take out the radios and phone lines it's already an island and the boat isn't scheduled to return anytime soon. So you could plan out the murders based on that alone.
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Changing things like who is present on a short timescale is easier said than done. For example, in the English text of Episode 1, George's name appears over 300 times; Natsuhi's, Jessica's and Battler's names appears 400 times; Maria's appears over 500 times. Were Ange a character in the story, she'd either survive to the ninth twilight (and would presumably have a comparable number of mentions), or she'd be a victim (and whichever person replaced her as a victim would have to have a similar number of mentions). In either case, trying to just edit her out would involve changing most of the pages. She might as well recopy the whole book.