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"it is all unwritten until it is."

This was the hardest thing for me to get, but I will state it: /It is all unwritten until it is published./ I got myself into an unfortunate pattern of writing things and then considering them canon. You can revise anything until it is sold or in front of your readers. 

Um...

I've actually taken it a little further. Since I write I-POV, I sometimes have the MC admit to little lies and face-saving things in subsequent stories. No whoppers, yet, though I have let a retcon slip through without pointing it out.  [grins innocently]  I took this dance to the max when I wrote a sequence of prequels... but made it work. The DJ novellas I mentioned in my yesterday's (hashtag)Music2WriteBy post.