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Case of the Missing Timeline
August 13, 2012, 9:39 am : +
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The novel I’m writing has a lot going on over the course of a year across seven characters’ intertwined lives. I have managed the timeline very carefully, double-checking myself with each new scene. A cheat-sheet of dates and events and chapter numbers has helped me keep it all straight. This morning I went to check something on it, and it’s missing! Did you take it?
The piles in my office have been in worse shape. Things are looking under control, in fact. What probably happened is I misfiled it, which could mean I’ll never see it again.
I remember when a good friend had been teaching me how to play bridge for a couple years when she got aggravated by my reliance on a Goren quick-reference card and told me—in a stern voice—to put it down and trust myself. I’m at that stage now with my novel’s timeline. It feels like someone just let go of my hand.
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This article is copyright protected and may not be republished without permission. Visit the authors site or share this article with your friends... Thanks! My name is Meredith Rutter (sometimes Meredith Ann Rutter). My entire working life has been devoted to creating books, in part or in whole. I worked from the ground up. Fresh out of Tufts University with a B.S. in zoology, I took a secretarial position in the high-school science department at an educational (textbook) publishing house in Boston, Mass. With its filing and recording tasks, the job was an ideal way to get a hands-on overview of what each level job involved. From the start, I memorized Chicago Press’s A Manual of Style and took to proofreading like a hippie to dope. As a writer, I’m working on memoir material and suspense fiction. My first publication is titled The Cleveland Rutters. You can learn more about it on my website http://yoursinbooks.com. I still have much to learn as a writer, especially when it comes to fiction. I’m working at it, though, and loving it just as much as every other aspect of books I’ve been involved in. More Posts - Website - Twitter
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