Hey guys,
So this is actually something I learned from a YouTuber I watch (yes, I'm such a geek that I watch Writing YouTube videos) a while ago and I started doing it and I love it. It works really well especially if you're working on a series or a really long novel. It's called creating a Story Bible. I do it a bit differently than most people and my way is probably more work than most people's way would be. But, since some of you may like my way, I'll tell you how I do it.
The first thing I do is open four or five documents. (For my current project I have 3. World Notes, Character Notes, and Series Notes.) I categorize those documents into notes for each part of this novel I'm building. I take about a week to get everything I know about this world and these characters into those documents. (My last project, I had 50 pages at the end of one of my documents.) Anything and everything I can think of, I put into those notes. Some things you write down won't even make it into your book but it's good to know everything about it.
The next and last thing I do is to take the information in those documents and create another document. This document will eventually be the Story Bible. I call it my personal Wikipedia Page and I organize it like one. You can organize this any way that will work for you, of course, as long as it's organized in a way that is easy for you to navigate when you need it. You can add to the Story Bible as you go along, of course, and it's really convenient when you need to know something and you don't remember where you wrote it down.
Anyways, that's my tip. Hope someone can use it. And if anyone else does this, let me know.
Colly.
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