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Illustration by Kim Rosen

My plotting adventure continues. I have now finished the plot summary for Tyubik (though I will go over it again before starting Draft 5), and have done 4/5 of the plot summary for Janna. After having summarized about 1/5 of the book the hair on my head started moving. I couldn't keep all the dates and the places and the characters straight to be able to summarize them correctly. How did I even write all this? I got online, dug around for help, and found that many...