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You're getting a lot of good advice here, but there are a few things I've experienced that I've not seen mentioned yet.
Timing. I'm sure someone mentioned it, but you need to get a timing light - preferably the type with the "clip" on voltage sensor. They are like $12-14 at harbor freight. hook it up, clip it to your #1 wire and it will flash if you are getting spark. Don't worry about the bare plug near the block test. I almost burned up my 220 when I tried to check the spark and a nice little quirt of atomized fuel shot out the plug hole. "Whoosh" Fortunately nothing caught on fire.
Go to Ron's site www.sw-em.com and read the timing instruction again. It might feel "remedial" but I've has three amazons myself and I F-ed up the static timing more than once. It can happen. If you did it correctly, there is no harm in checking it. Be sure you dizzy bolt is tight enough to prevent it from loosening.
I've had the whole dizzy assembly work loose and rattle around. I've also had the collar too lose and the timing slipped until the car wouldn't start.
Do you have a tachometer? Smiths (serial wiring with the condensor/coil) OR a 52mm tachometer or aftermarket tach? If you have any tach in the system, unhook it until you get the engine started.
I had a 52mm VDO go bad. It cooked my blue bosch coil slowly. OR the coil went bad and cooked my tach - same outcome.
Get out your multimeter and check the resistance on your coil. report back.
When the coil was cooked, I still couldn't start the car with a replacement. The tachometer failed so badly it was shorting the dizzy. When I removed it all, things were fine.
Get a dwell meter to read your points gap.
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