Funnily enough this was an english project (write journal entries from a dystopian book characters POV) and I chose Cal from Red Queen-and then decided to publish it because I actually thought it was worth it and others should be able to give their two cents.

This is my internal ramblings and explanation as to how I got the dates that are posted

Notes for me in piecing together the dates of the book:

Starts on first Friday, Saturday market and meet Cal, Sunday job and exposure, Monday deal is made. Three weeks later goes home and finds out shade died at least three weeks ago

Shade dead on July 27, 320 NE. Shade 'died' just before deal was made so…

Using 2015 (publishing year) as reference

First Friday, august 7 and so on. Date she finds out and goes home august 28 and joins guard,

Cal

Diary entries:

Market Day, (meeting in the pub), Aug. 8

Queenstrial, Aug. 9

First day of training with Mare, Aug. 29

Dancing with Mare, (Both?), sept 12,

sept 13

The ball, aftermath (three parts; ball, chase, interrogation, prisoner escape) sept 14

Whitefire travel day (day earlier than Mare)/public announcement, sept 15

First day in whitefire, convo about letting Julian go, sept 16

Red Dawn (two parts; explosions and convo, dad die), sept 19

Survival in the ring, sept 20

On the train, sept 21

Whitefire travel day,

ball,

a dancing lesson with cal and kiss/Sara and game convo with Julian, sept 13

meeting with maven about Farley and targets/first dancing lesson/legion convo with Cal/elara outburst/meet Sara after training arena day sept 12

first training day, week later meeting with Farley sep5, week later is arena day, (two weeks after training day)

red dawn, survival next day, train same day (writing the next day)

there 15,

watch tv 16 and find Julian's left notes,

wandering around palace 17,

appearances 18 theater meeting with Farley in radioactive redtown Walsh dies

red dawn 19

(The format of the journal is as if he found his mother's old diary that had a pre-written introduction with a fill in date, it started as a daily log, until things went crazy and he started to write his feelings more and more,)