My plotting adventure continues. I have now finished the plot summary for Tyubik (though I will go over it again before starting Draft 5), and have done 4/5 of the plot summary for Janna. After having summarized about 1/5 of the book the hair on my head started moving. I couldn't keep all the dates and the places and the characters straight to be able to summarize them correctly. How did I even write all this? I got online, dug around for help, and found that many writers do timelines. Well, I decided to make one too, a simple table with dates, places, and corresponding plot twists. It's halfway done now. In the middle of doing it I understood that there is danger in over-planning. All these summaries and charts and tables can get so complicated that I can spend months perfecting them and never get any writing done, or be so tired of the whole story idea by the time I'm done with plotting that the actual writing will be boring.
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