Authorial echo-location

So I mentioned t'other day that I felt as though I were writing the very book that Joey Bettany her own self would have written, if only she'd written science fiction?

Well, in my (entirely work-related!) current re-read of the series, I'm into Jo Returns to the Chalet School [featuring Hildegard Mariana Sophonisba Heriot, aka Polly, but that is by the way, except that m'cat Sophie was properly Sophonisba, just so's you know] and in Chapter Five, "Joey - The Authoress", we read this:

Then came a certain morning when, on reading all she had done to date, Jo made the appalling discovery that she had mixed up two of the prefects, and, consequently, she must either rewrite one of the early chapters, or else the five succeeding ones.

"Oh, bother - bother - bother!" she groaned, when she found this out. "That's what comes of being too lazy to make out lists. Well, I'd better do it now and save all this trouble for the future. And then I suppose I'll have to rewrite that blessed chapter. Where's my note-book?"

I DID EXACTLY THE SAME THING! EXACTLY! JUST LAST WEEK! FOR EXACTLY THE SAME REASON!

Ahem. And I'm only on Chapter Four. But yes: one girl was moaning about a prefect whom another girl defended, and I had entirely confused my prefects and had to go back and sort the tangle out. And then make lists. And it isn't really any defence to mutter that half the point of my trying Scrivener was to make the list-making easier, so it's really the software's fault for being too unstable to use, so...

I now have a file in my Crater School folder, called "School Roll". Which, come to think, I should probably update already...