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The I'm Writing Thread.... Celebrate your pages written etc Part II.
Ren:
Thanks for the input, I may have to look at re-setting my chapters down the road. I usually aim to write 12-13 pages per chapter which is usually 3-4 days of writing.
Now I need to finish summarizing what I've written so far so I can get back to writing without fear of writing something that is obviated by previous writing, sadly I suffer memory issues so it makes it hard for me to remember details I've written...8P
The Deposed King:
--- Quote from: Ren on April 23, 2013, 01:37:30 PM ---Thanks for the input, I may have to look at re-setting my chapters down the road. I usually aim to write 12-13 pages per chapter which is usually 3-4 days of writing.
Now I need to finish summarizing what I've written so far so I can get back to writing without fear of writing something that is obviated by previous writing, sadly I suffer memory issues so it makes it hard for me to remember details I've written...8P
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I make a separate word or text file for my novel length works. I put down the names of any and all characters, primary, secondary, tertiary, etc as well as vital details. Who are they, where are they coming from, what side are they on. You just don't realize how tough it is to keep things consistent until you are scratching your head and wondering if it was Jeff from engineering you needed or if his name was Charles and was it Jeff or Charles that worked in environmental, cause you definitely needed the engineering guy for what the supporting character on this one!
The Deposed King
Wordmaker:
Oh, yeah absolutely. I have a pretty solid memory for story details and I still rely on keeping an up to date record of who's who and such.
Ren:
I have a word file of just my case and some brief descriptions/information. I also have all of the chapters, characters, places and things added into Scrivener as well...just in case I lose the USB key with everything on it...8P
The Deposed King:
Yup, you can dink around with stuff that's 5-10k and keep most or all of it in your head and scroll rapidly back to any spots you missed but you get up over that amount and unless you've got some kind of photographic memory... well I certainly can't keep up with it all. Its easy to remember the story. But the name of some guy you mentioned 60k words ago? Not gonna happen unless he's a primary secondary character.
I also like to save these things in as many places as I can. Cause you never know when your computer is going to crap out on you. I've lost three lap tops over here in the philippines. Thank god for flash drives and curse me for not updating them as often as I should have.
The Deposed King
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