A month into 2017 and I’ve just about quasi abandoned the 85K90 challenge. Well, not so much abandoned, but perhaps put the task on hiatus as the plotting and pondering of the overarching narrative structure and mixing and matching the character (and their exposition baggage) relationships has taken over (again). The sequence of events in the Grand Scheme of things is the difficult / fun part – as the MASC Chronicles is essentially an epic saga spanning several generations of several (sometimes intertwining) families. Not quite sure at what point in the writing process that decision was made, but for now that’s the way it’s going to be. Keeping track of the families (which not need to be related by blood) and the broad spectrum of their relationships with one another (and within the family unit itself) will require loads of attention and meticulous org charts (or Excel spreadsheets –…
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