Time Lines

One drawback of being an organic writer (a/k/a “pantser”) is the timeline of a story.

I’ve been deep into revisions of my third werewolf novel, Omega Moon Rising. In one spot, my editor asked me, “Has it really only been a week?” My initial response was, “Time flies when you’re having fun.” Then I realized she had a point. I know the story didn’t happen over an extended period of time, but there had to have been more than a week between the events to which she referred.

::sigh::

So I opened up an Excel spread sheet and created a calendar of sorts, using the phases of the moon. Moon phases are extremely important to werewolves. What if I had messed all of that up, too? Fortunately, I had not. But I did discover some really long chapters. I needed to tweak a word here and there to clarify the amount of time that had passed. Whew!