Time and Structure

Time and Structure

Keeping track of time in my books is something I forget to do all too often. I’m getting better at including it in my scene summary spreadsheets, but I still have to remind myself to go back and make sure my characters don’t have breakfast after lunch, or go to bed after breakfast. My spreadsheets give me the story day—until there’s a need for a specific day of the week, I tend to call them Day 1, 2, 3, etc. Given the current manuscript takes place on a cattle ranch, I haven’t...