In any kind of narration, the simplest approach is to set down events in chronological order, the way they happened. To do so is to have your story already organized for you. A chronological order is therefore an excellent sequence to follow unless you can see some special advantage in violating it."
(X.J. Kennedy, Dorothy M. Kennedy, and Jane E. Aaron, The Bedford Reader, 7th ed. Bedford/St. Martin's, 2000)