At 20 pages, the outline is nearly complete: next phase…

Is to go through and slice out bits and put them where they need to be. This is the 52-card-pickup phase.

Young writers are frequently stunned to know that WHEN things happen is not really the plot. The plot is why things happen. And you can actually move events around without affecting the plot…to get a better explanation of that why.

So it's moving day. Paragraphs are floating hither and thither.

I was amid this process when the computer meltdown began. I am going to go sort mediaeval...