Timeline

The timeline is what happens in the story world and the order in which it happens to the characters, not necessarily how it appears in the novel. For example, the action that happens in the flashback in chapter ten actually occurred for the character before the events of chapter one. Your timeline is not your structure board that I mentioned on the plotline page.

It's interesting that in my first draft, all the events took place within a month; the second draft, within two weeks; the third draft, one week. I made the mistake of swapping out scenes in the structure but not paying attention to the timeline until I'd finished the third draft and realized that while for one storyline, one night had passed, but for another storyline, two days had passed. It gets complicated when you have multiple storylines. It gets even more complicated when one city is six hours ahead of the other.