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In a first draft characters are where you need them to be, as many times as you desire. When writing the first draft, either I have planned it, and I know already where everybody is, or I haven't ...
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2019-12-18T21:34:21Z (about 5 years ago)
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2019-12-08T06:57:00Z (about 5 years ago)
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In a first draft characters are where you need them to be, as many times as you desire. When writing the first draft, either I have planned it, and I know already where everybody is, or I haven't planned anything, this there is no need to keep track of location details. I'd also add that in my first novels I got stuck in such exercises as the one from this question. It took time to realize that they were just self made excuse to procrastinate writing the second half of the book. During revision I keep track of locations with a table: characters as columns and chapters as rows. In each cell the location, and sometimes even the inventory.
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2018-12-12T20:02:40Z (about 6 years ago)
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