Hahaha snorted at "A dual timeline novel should be a club sandwich, not one piece of bread looking mournfully through a window at a more interesting sandwich." Love the pacing/tension chart too - I've done something similar and I'm definitely going to incorporate it into my process for my WIP.
This is super interesting. I just wrote about using dual timelines, too— and it’s wild that I didn’t even notice til i read Vera’s piece that my A/now timeline is the one with my major dramatic question. B/past timeline has its own structure and set of beats (that I had to work really hard to pin down), but the big mystery is in the later timeline.
This is SO helpful and omg I love your tension graph. Might need to start using something like that in my own projects. Thanks for sharing all this wisdom with us!
This should be a master class! You've got me thinking about my dual-timeline book for real.
Hahaha snorted at "A dual timeline novel should be a club sandwich, not one piece of bread looking mournfully through a window at a more interesting sandwich." Love the pacing/tension chart too - I've done something similar and I'm definitely going to incorporate it into my process for my WIP.
That chart!! I draw little line pictures but the dots are such a good idea. This whole piece = good ideas.
This is super interesting. I just wrote about using dual timelines, too— and it’s wild that I didn’t even notice til i read Vera’s piece that my A/now timeline is the one with my major dramatic question. B/past timeline has its own structure and set of beats (that I had to work really hard to pin down), but the big mystery is in the later timeline.
https://open.substack.com/pub/lauraleffler/p/dual-timelines-are-hard?r=1fisk&utm_medium=ios
This is SO helpful and omg I love your tension graph. Might need to start using something like that in my own projects. Thanks for sharing all this wisdom with us!
I like to incorporate a little math into my planning