I was thinking, because this new story idea of mine is… well, it’s doing something. There’s a huge chunk of story that happens before the actual story happens but I still wanted to have it in the story to show how the characters come together but it’d just be for the sake of introducing the characters and how their relationship formed but it doesn’t have much to do with the actual story… so I could go in medias res as I tend to do but still write the beginning even before November as a sort of warmup to the characters themselves, as this supplementary exposition so I would get a better feel at what the characters already know and feel by the time we get to the actual story.

And then I wouldn’t have to worry about building that into the structure cause who gives a shit.