Structure
I just realised that the timeline of my book is very important to me. Characters are important, themes are important, but timeline EQUALS structure.
Maybe this is a really obvious thing to say. Other writers probably know this already, but I only just realised this morning how very very important the timeline of each of my books is.
So, for 'Beatle Meets Destiny', I structured the entire book around three Friday the 13ths: Friday the 13th February, Friday the 13th March and Friday the 13th November (which were the Friday the 13ths in the year the book was published: 2010).
In 'The Reluctant Hallelujah', I structured the entire book around a road trip that lasts for three days.
And in my new book (maybe titled 'Milla Lucifer and Heath' but I'm not sure), it takes place over a long weekend and is split into three separate days: Friday, Saturday and (duh) Sunday.
So ... yeah.