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The good news is that the pages I wrote yesterday stood up to the critical test--the next day readthrough while drinking my morning coffee.
The bad news is that I'm completely confused on the timeline. I'm not quite certain if it is still summer or already autumn, and this is important to the plot since there is a distinct winter season when ships do not attempt to cross the great sea. If I'm going to kickoff a naval war (and I am), I need to start it in the summer or figure out how to delay it until spring.
This is where I need a personal assistant to go through the story notes and the chapters I've already written, and construct a precise timeline. Book starts on Day 1, which is Earth equivalent of X. Character A murdered X+#, news of assassination reaches Seddon on X+##, etc.
I hate having to go back and organize these fiddly bits, when what I really want to do is to keep pressing forward with the actual writing.
Each time I start a book I promise myself that this time I'll be organized, and keep notes of such things as I go. But once again I've fallen down on the job.
Sigh.
The bad news is that I'm completely confused on the timeline. I'm not quite certain if it is still summer or already autumn, and this is important to the plot since there is a distinct winter season when ships do not attempt to cross the great sea. If I'm going to kickoff a naval war (and I am), I need to start it in the summer or figure out how to delay it until spring.
This is where I need a personal assistant to go through the story notes and the chapters I've already written, and construct a precise timeline. Book starts on Day 1, which is Earth equivalent of X. Character A murdered X+#, news of assassination reaches Seddon on X+##, etc.
I hate having to go back and organize these fiddly bits, when what I really want to do is to keep pressing forward with the actual writing.
Each time I start a book I promise myself that this time I'll be organized, and keep notes of such things as I go. But once again I've fallen down on the job.
Sigh.
