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Oct 11, 2023 at 10:25pm
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Re: I confess...
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Good question. I think a timeline is important when you're doing a story to keep everything in order. You don't want someone to be reading and think, 'Wait a minute, this is happening on a Wednesday a week ago. But how is that possible? Wasn't Joe Blow in Timbuktu that day? Why is he now in Never-Never Land." And then the reader goes back trying to find where Joe Blow actually was in the story a week ago on that Wednesday.

Seems silly I know. But I get confused sometimes in a book and have to backtrack to keep all the characters and the storyline straight.

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