Fun with Timelines

So, my mother has informed me that there are timeline issues with Scurvytown. I definitely see what she means, because it is very confusing to figure out what happens when. I get it, because I live in my own head and know what I mean, but to the rest of the roughly four folks reading it, timeline progression is definitely not clear.

I am working on the timeline issue. I think the problem is that I am telling characters’ stories concurrently, but also jump around a bit in time when I do so. Everything takes place so far within a week’s time, which is also confusing when each episode comes out every week. It’s taken 8 weeks to get through an entire week. It reminds me of back when I used to watch the now defunct soap opera, “Passions”. (Seriously, I swear they used to take eons for anything to happen, it would be Thanksgiving until it was Christmas, and then Christmas until Valentine’s Day, and then it would be that until the 4th of July, etc. But they had witches and a living doll – R.I.P. Timmy – and it was funny. Plus, Spike and Giles used to watch it together on BtVS, which is a hilarity in itself.)

Anyway, yeah, timelines, working on that.

Also working on the exciting conclusion to the Hopewell kidnapping saga. I think I have figured out a fairly funny outcome for all of that. Hopefully, when I go to the bar tomorrow night to work on writing, I’ll end up writing something good. I feel like I am on the verge of something awesome here with Scurvytown, I just need to focus and put more effort into it.