Writing project
The Salt Almanac
Demonstration content. "The Salt Almanac" is a fictitious writing project, invented only to show how parts, chapters, scenes and sources look in the notebook.
Demonstration premise: a lighthouse keeper's daughter inherits a coastal almanac that seems to predict departures, not weather.
Structure
5,430 words total
Part One — Low Tide
4,010 words
Chapter 1 — The Almanac
2,140 words
- Scene 1 — Finding the almanac980 words
- Scene 2 — The first entry1,160 words
Chapter 2 — The Ferry
1,870 words
- Scene 1 — Waiting at the dock860 words
- Scene 2 — The bell counted twice1,010 words
Part Two — High Water
1,420 words
Chapter 3 — What the Almanac Left Out
1,420 words
- Scene 1 — A page torn out1,420 words
Source connection
inspiration
“She counted the ferry bell twice before she believed she was really leaving.”
Used in Chapter 2 — The Ferry. The ferry-bell image from The Glass Orchard sparked this chapter's departure scene.
Revision pass
Continuity pass — the almanac's rules
continuity · active
Make sure the almanac's predictions never contradict an earlier chapter.
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