So far my project has gone pretty well. Everything accords to plan in the sense that any one thing can go to plan. I have never once in my life experienced a progression of events in which every single thing went according to the plan. My work consists of much writing, this writing is categorized into four types: general research entries by the author, I call these research entries, backstory, and character development entries, I call these personal entries, and then there are entries that are about those characters that surround my protagonist, I call these character entires. Finally, there are story entries, these are research on the town or the oddities that inhabit it that are told as a story experienced by the protagonist rather than their research notes about the entity they have encountered. Each of these gets an index card with the name of the entity, character, or experience they are about, as well as a marking denoting the type of entry they have.  I have implemented my own sort of shorthand in marking these, using (p) for personal entries, (r) for research entries, (c) for character entries, and (s) for story entries. The parenthesis is my best way of representing a circle around the letter using this keyboard of course.
This organization and categorization was not of course an initial part of my plan, though it is not a divergence either. Rather than an unforeseen tool, or direction I had taken my writing in. These index cards let me remember all the ideas I have come up with, and organize them in an order to create a type of storyboard.
I have throughout my progress discovered a few questions I had not thought of before, including what gender would my author be. There had been a part missing from my character’s motivation through the question of the protagonist’s gender, and my decision to make her female which had helped to solve that issue. 
I have, through my research, explored a series of books, starting with a book titled: A Natural History of Dragons: a Memoir by Lady Trent, this is a series of five books by Marie Brennan. A Natural History of Dragons takes place in an alternate Victorian world where dragons exist in the wild. They follow of adventures and research of one Isabella Camherst, later Lady Trent, and her studies of dragons. These books, ones I had never heard of before this project, have not only given me ideas, inspiration, and information, but also a tone in which to tell my tale. My tale of course is quite a bit different in content and format, though A Natural History of Dragons: A Memoir by Lady Trent, and the following volumes have given me much to work with linguistically. 
My goal for the project has not changed much, though my ideas have. I have elected to include more diagrams than I had previously thought. This change has me thrown down the rabbit hole of creative new ways to draw these and represent my ideas in images. I am happy with my project and I hope to meet my goals! I am on track to do so.