Next time I write anything of any length with three interlinked plots, a host of characters doing things on three different planets over the course of two years with history that goes back to the beginning of the species ... I'm doing the timeline FIRST.
A. Train. Wreck. Would need less cleanup than this morass.
Spent all afternoon creating a workable timeline that I can post on the wall, using the timeline draft I'd made awhile back and making some tweaks and changes to increase the pressure on characters while leaving enough wriggle room for me to make things happen. We'll see if I was successful as I move forward.
Really. I mean, I love writing seat-of-the-pants, but fixing event loops (the trigger for something happening turns out to be something that hasn't happened yet) is not my idea of a good time.
