Words/Time: 1 hour, 30 minutes doing preliminary work for the new outline of “Protector.”
I finished reading the first draft, making a few small changes along the way. Then I had to analyze the best way to proceed with sorting out which scenes can be kept and which are not related to the main plot, or an important-enough sub-plot and have to be cut. The way this story is laid out makes it difficult to wrap my head around some of this, so I decided the next step is to actually put the scenes into chronological order. That will help me a lot later anyway, because I’ll need to put this story into my timeline of all of the Pithea books at some point anyway (probably before I’m done re-outlining it).
The scenes are now in chronological order, so tomorrow I’ll start color-coding them by plot/sub-plot.