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As expected, yesterday’s “scene cards” took more than one day (given that I used 17 instead of 10). Yesterday I took care of the first 10, and today I finished up the remaining 7. I also managed to get through Day 3’s tasks – a research list and an At-a-Glance outline. Given the way my cards pretty much already serve as a full plot outline, I really don’t see myself using the at-a-glance outline much, if at all, but I decided to go ahead and put it together anyway.

Tomorrow will be a long day – that’s where I have to map out my characters. I won’t be following the character worksheets exactly as in the book (some info I just don’t need for the minor characters for the shorter story elements) – so they’re being broken into three groups (my lead and one other character), the men she has these failed relationships with in the sub-stories, and then minor characters (some of whom carry through the book, and some who don’t). Again, it’s possible this will take longer than the one day, given that there are quite a few to go through with the format of this book being somewhat non-traditional.

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