WRITING OBSTACLE
Build a timeline of when the events in your story take place.
Understanding how much time is meant to have passed in a story can be difficult. Plan out the real-life timing of events in your story, and how they link together across time.
The Crew (timeline)
The story starts like any other day. Richard is looking over online articles trying to find what he is missing. An article catches his attention and he knows that he is going to need help to accomplish his goal. Over the course of a year he sets out to find a boat and put together a crew to go in search of the adventure he so longs to go on. Once he has the crew and boat ready to go it still takes another three months to get to his destination but once on the island he only has a month to get off says island before he vanishes along with the island. Not everyone will make it out alive but the ones that do will have gone on the trip of a lifetime.