Toolbox

In the process of answering interview questions and preparing for a presentation about how I write and revise, I came across the set of "companion" files for The Secret Year.  I had forgotten how many of these files there were: a calendar, a map, outlines, graphs, floor plans for the main character's house, character sketches for every major and most of the minor characters.  I wrote the critical scenes in the book from three or four different characters' points of view.  None of this materia...