FYI, for my Visionating Readers. I promised a post on Wednesday to continue our Visionating Series and I haven’t posted it yet. I will continue the series on Monday, May 14th so you will be able to read the next post in the series then.
Now for the Story Notebook…
If you’re a fiction writer, how do you organize your ideas for your story? I have a Story Notebook. This has been a lifesaver for me. I used scribble ideas on random pieces of paper or in various Word documents. This has proved to big a big time waster.
This time around, I’m using a story notebook.
Since I’m in the very early stages of a story idea, I’m just pre-writing and brainstorming. I ask a lot of ‘what if?’ questions and allow myself the freedom to follow bunny trails as the Muse leads me. This has been a fun diversion for me since my days are pretty action packed with diaper changes and potty training, lol.
Eventually, I’ll gather my ideas into an organized system. I’m thinking I’ll include categories like:
*Story Structure: Include an overall sketch of main points in the story to help me get from point A to point B.
*Character Sketches: Motivations, History, etc.
*Setting: Pictures and Note on real or imagined settings
*Freewriting/Brainstorming: what if questions, dialogue snippets, etc.
*Scene Lists & Notes: more detailed than ‘story structure’ I’ll include different elements of a particular scene
I’m pretty sure that as I delve deeper into the work, I’ll have several notebooks filled with stuff. I’m hoping this will be much better than how I worked on my last novel which, although completed, took a lot of work to finish because my ideas were scattered everywhere.
If you’re a writer, how do you organize/plan out you stories?
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