I actually want to do this in reverse.
I want to do a careful read of the Baroque Cycle trilogy by Neal Stephenson and make a note of the location of every major character for as fine of a time period I can. Then I want to load it all into Timeline (http://www.simile-widgets.org/timeline/)
I've done this for the wheel of time.. Satisfying but a lot of work. (Hoping to put it properly online in the next week or so -- having some hardware issues on my development system)
I'm upvoting you just for the crazy amount of work that you've put into that. It's hard enough just keeping things straight to a 1st approximation when reading the books, meticulously keeping track of every character is pretty intense.
Oh thanks but I don't deserve it. Compared to some of the sites like enc-wot -- mine is just a hobby. It just tracks things at a Point-of-View level. I did it basically to try and keep track of what the hell was going on before Gathering Storm came out.. wotsummary.com
It's a really useful exercise to reverse-engineer a writers work in this way. It gives you a good insight into how they structure plot, flesh out characters etc.
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I actually want to do this in reverse. I want to do a careful read of the Baroque Cycle trilogy by Neal Stephenson and make a note of the location of every major character for as fine of a time period I can. Then I want to load it all into Timeline (http://www.simile-widgets.org/timeline/)
I've done this for the wheel of time.. Satisfying but a lot of work. (Hoping to put it properly online in the next week or so -- having some hardware issues on my development system)
I'm upvoting you just for the crazy amount of work that you've put into that. It's hard enough just keeping things straight to a 1st approximation when reading the books, meticulously keeping track of every character is pretty intense.
Oh thanks but I don't deserve it. Compared to some of the sites like enc-wot -- mine is just a hobby. It just tracks things at a Point-of-View level. I did it basically to try and keep track of what the hell was going on before Gathering Storm came out.. wotsummary.com
www.wotsummary.com/map.html
It's a really useful exercise to reverse-engineer a writers work in this way. It gives you a good insight into how they structure plot, flesh out characters etc.