Keeping track of time
by Wen Spencer
Someone at the Forward Motion Writers forum asked, "How do you keep track of
the time in your novels?"
One of the reasons that my Ukiah novels have the date as chapter headings was
they cover a short amount of time with...
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Keeping track of time
by Wen Spencer
Someone at the Forward Motion Writers forum asked, "How do you keep track of
the time in your novels?"
One of the reasons that my Ukiah novels have the date as chapter headings was
they cover a short amount of time with an insane amount of things happening.
Bitter
Waters is only seven days.
I think Dog Warrior is actually even shorter.
Usually what I do is get a calander of the time period overed (all four books are
during 2004 -- June, August, late September, early October) and start marking in what
happens when.
This helps when the characters are trying to talk about events.
Was that
yesterday or the day before yesterday that the shooting occurred? Was that Monday or
Tuesday that they did the other thing? Will they be getting together on Friday?
Because I cram so much into one day, occassionally I have to figure out how
many hours would have taken each event.
If the heroes want food now and its in the
middle of the night, they better find a
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