How much time does your novel cover?

Mad Hatter · Oct 7, 2009

Sixth Circle has the time span of about four months

charlotte49ers · Oct 7, 2009

October to May (I think, may be a shorter period)

folkchick · Oct 8, 2009

One month.

Z0Marley · Oct 8, 2009

Book One - 1 year
Two - 2 years
Three - 1 year

Twenty years later is when book four will be coming around.

jasonleeward · Nov 13, 2009

My Novel's Timeline

My novel begins in late November, a week before Thanksgiving, and concludes in mid/late January. So about 2 months.

charlotte49ers · Nov 13, 2009

Mine changed! It's only going to be about 2-3 summer months (I think).

Sage · Nov 13, 2009

Trouble lasts two weeks.

I'm good with the two-week timeline.

ladyinpink · Nov 13, 2009

about a year. 3ish months as a teen, 9ish months as an adult. books 2 and 3 as an adult.

half.jaded · Nov 13, 2009

About a month and a half. It seems kind of quick, now that I think about it. Oo Her personality does a complete 360 in that span of time. Ah well. I'll try to see to that later.

AlishaS · Nov 13, 2009

My current WIP is from September to December

cscarlet · Nov 13, 2009

You know, I'm not completely sure how many months, but it takes up two seasons (fall, through winter).

eyeblink · Nov 13, 2009

eyeblink said:
The Storyteller's Tale - a few months
The Plague Year - also a few months
Partings and Greetings - about a year

With my pending rethink of The Plague Year, it will take place over about two years. I'll be dropping the protag's age from seventeen to sixteen at the start so as to keep her within YA range.

Partings and Greetings goes from October to October, from near the start of a school year to one of the protag's leaving for University.

jmascia · Nov 14, 2009

My novel, High School Heroes, covers 5 months. I start on the first day of school and end at the beginning of February. The second part (which I've only done a couple chapters of so far, will finish out the school year.

Animaluver · Nov 14, 2009

My story starts in late November and probably will cover a few months.

erin_michelle · Nov 15, 2009

Book One in my planned series takes place beginning of Sept. to end of Oct. The whole series is taking place over a school year (May).

My current WIP takes place--if we want to ignore the flashing back--over two days, but in reality it's over 5 months.

~*Kate*~ · Nov 15, 2009

Aug-Dec

thothguard51 · Nov 15, 2009

Keeping track of time lines is somewhat important in my fantasy writing and I realized this early on and created a time line chart so I did not become confused. Last thing I want is a reader pointing out inconsistent time intervals...

Prophecy of the Gods spans about 6 months...

Prophecy of the Elves spans about 9 months...

Prophecy of the Desert will span about 12 months, but takes place 15 years after the previous book ends...

My other non fantasy works usually span a weekend to maybe 3 months...

DrummerGirl · Nov 19, 2009

My first book, Seventeen, covered about 8 months.

My current WIP, has already covered 4 months, 17 000 words in. Fiddling with my synopsis a bit - looks to span 3 years - but unsure if I should or not, by then the main protagonists will be 21 -22 years old... so still considering changing the direction a bit to keep it (and the issues) YA

gideonna · Nov 23, 2009

3 weeks and 360 years

Tan · Dec 8, 2009

A few weeks. Monthish.

bobcat22 · Dec 9, 2009

Mine lasts about a year and a half...I feel like that's too long for YA. It's a question I've been trying to figure out and work out.

free_cashews_on_me · Dec 9, 2009

about three months.

mellymel · Dec 9, 2009

Hi, this is my very first post here in the AW and found this question to be of interest to me. I recently finished my first novel (queries just sent out to agents two days ago).

my story takes place over 3 weeks but the majority of the story occurs in 10 days.

oblivo · Dec 9, 2009

Five days for my latest.

Claudia Gray · Dec 9, 2009

We just submitted a one-shot premise that takes place primarily over a period of about 6 days, though there is a final section taking place about three weeks after that, covering one day more.

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