Notes are in order, well, as much as it was possible to put them there. Kinda had to guess which act things belonged in after the first one. Remembered something really helpful I did with AJ during revision. Listed every scene with a couple word description in order and broke it down into acts that way.
Need to do this next.
Or I could just work on act one, which I pretty much know how it goes and what needs to go in there and where, then do the list of scenes.
Except, I’m not sure about something that I might want to be sure about before I begin the revisions on act one. It’s a timeline thing (which reminds me, something else I have to make is a calendar to get my months and days straight). As I’ve got it envisioned now, act one takes place over a period of months. Then acts 2-4 all happen in 6 weeks or so. Will this make my book feel unbalanced? Am I breaking any laws of balance here? Will my ms. feel out of whack if I structure it this way?
There’s always the possibility that act one is backstory, but I know the dangers of starting a book before the trouble starts, and the trouble starts in act one scene one, so I don’t think I’m writing backstory in act one. For plot purposes, the book needs to begin in warm weather and end in warm weather with a spring in between. So that’s why my time plan is the way it is. Which would be fine if it won’t read lopsided. Otherwise, I can come up with a new plot point that fixes the time. I don’t know how, since the trouble depends on people being outside, but surely it’s not impossible to start trouble in a warm and cozy house. Or on a vacation somewhere warm. Except that I like my first scene the way it is.
So anyway, if this all sounds really disorganized, it’s because that’s what my head feels like right now. So much to do, so many choices, so many things to get into order. And I’m not complaining. It’s actually sort of fun. Really.