Mike asks “How do you keep track of passage of time in a story as you write?”
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Mike asks “How do you keep track of passage of time in a story as you write?”
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I tried a lot of things, Wiki, Excel table, list of notes, I finally gave up and wrote the timeline into the structural format of my series. Each scene has a date that contains 1 to 15 scenes depending on the density of the story for that day. Each scene is a location and a time, with the POV character also listed in my personal notes only.
This worked well until I need to tell some part of the story that happened before. Thin I used the same structure with a character telling that part of the story in the scene. In one case the character had a dream sequence. The dream was well identified as such.