During the writing of Anywhere But Home, I decided to follow a topic rather than a time line. One paragraph could have been talking about a present topic and then the following paragraphs would support the idea and jump around through history. This was a conscious decision I made for a couple of reasons. The first being that I couldn't figure out a way to maintain the integrity of the story and the time line simultaneously. The second reason was that when I put things in a time line, the flow just didn't work and required the reader to recall an inference that I had made perhaps chapters prior in order to understand what brought me to the current situation. For the second book, I've written a time line which I think will be achievable. Mostly by happenstance because my life was pretty linear at the time. More even keel and less chaotic than everything covered in Anywhere But Home.