Goals/Deadlines 5/1/13: Have 5 pages of brainstorming finished 5/15/13: Have an outline finished 5/17/13: Present outline to publisher 6/1/13: 50 pages rough draft 6/30/13: 100 pages rough draft 7/30/13: 150 pages rough draft 8/30/13: 200 pages rough draft 9/1/13: Present rough draft to publisher Characters Major: Anna Avery, Louis Avery, Irving Little Secondary: Laura Avery, Mary Norris, Erica White Minor Recurring: Rachel Hawthorne, George Hunter, Alan Byrne, Emma Sandstrom, D.J. Williams, Professor Dean Maps/Settings General setting: Sarasota, Florida. Anna and Louis Avery: Single family home in Sarasota, Florida. Ranch style, living and dining room in front, kitchen in middle, two bedrooms in back. Back screened-in porch leads out to sprawling backyard, overgrown with weeds and dead things. Dead end street, neighbor only on one side, older married couple. Irving Little: Maintenance quarters behind the Mennonite church, 6 blocks from the Avery residence. Small studio apartment on top of a garage full of groundskeeping equipment. Well-kept grounds, lots of flowers and trees, an Eden. Laura Avery: Retirement home 5 miles from Anna and Louis’s home, on the second floor, one small room to herself. Scenes Morning Sun Cafe Avery household Mennonite Church Retirement home Forested area behind Avery household Research Ecosystem/weather patterns of Sarasota area Mennonite church architecture Mennonite lifestyle Retirement home statistics, layout, logistics