. >> my name is sean markey. i have a question about craft and some of the questions you made and it might be a way to open it up a little bit. what was one of the harder things you struggled with and how did you work through that, or ultimately, what was the best you got from the outside reader reader -- whether it was an editor or a friendly reader that help to us something that wasn't working. >> the best advice i got early on was to make a timeline. it was so simple, but it literally, the book takes place in a fairly short two year period. from and i did a day by day timeline for those two years. that's when you start to see these patterns emerging. what's incredible is that these leaders, in the months after, there was 1 million things going on. they were just focused on the rise, there was an uprising in kashmir. there was things that were all happening in the same day. most accounts treat them all separately, you don't realize that you wake up and you go to meeting about this and bad and he was operating o

. >> sean markey. i have a question about and some of the choices you made and maybe a way to just open it up a little bit. what was maybe one of the harder things you struggled with in the work through that? or alternately, what was the best advice he got from an outside reader, either at editor or just a friendly reader that help you fix some in the west are working. .. was moving towards independence. these things are all happening in the same day. most books, most accounts treat them all separately. there's a chapter -- you realize one simple cup of what he went to wendy about this and another me about that. he was operate onto his -- two hours of sleep and they got a letter from his girlfriend. you can kind of get into the had a little bit more and understand the pressures they were under and why the would've made certain decisions. there are certain decisions made that i haven't seen explained before. you realize he made a decision at the end of his three-hour meeting with the talked about someth