I know what you mean. I realized last night that having an actual plot in Part 1 of my story means Part 1 actually breaks into two parts. Which changes the structure of the story from four parts with the crisis point at the end of part two, to five parts with the crisis at the end of part three. Or possibly four parts with the crisis at the end of part three and all the resolution in one 'part' but I'm thinking it'll be two. Plus I'm now inserting the "I'm going to spend 7k words telling you what happened twenty-five years ago" section and I just realized that the person telling it doesn't know one of the most crucial parts.... argh...
I still have no idea how I'm going to piece it all together. Right now I have two separate narratives, but they don't run in parallel, so if I alternate chapters, one narrative will be giving away stuff I don't want to give away yet.
It's kind of a mess. But I guess that's why it's called a *rough* draft
Heh...last night I dreamed I met up with you and Talon at some mall in Canada.
We were mostly buying Smarties and Crunchie bars.
I'm not sure how that should be interpreted...