What I’m Doing in the Study

Here’s the recipe:

1. Take one tightly-coupled plot with four interwoven PoVs.
2. Decide, after two of those threads are completely done and a third is coming up on the Act 3 break, to rearrange the plot so the threads end at the same time.
3. Realize that the two completed threads are the ones that need to be rearranged, because they are the ones that require less calendar time.
4. Break several subplots into tiny pieces and rearrange them, adjusting on the fly for new developments that arise in the rewriting.

I never solved Rubik’s Cube, but for some reason I feel confident I can handle this. The first 100K words of this operation have gone surprisingly well.

More anon.

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