Hi happy Saturday! Question I have. I want to get into writing and I really love your style. Any tips on how you plan your stories (fanfic and og)? thanks!
Hello! Thank you so much :) This question made my day!
For fanfic, I don’t plan too much (at least not for the fics I’m currently working on). I create a skeleton structure and just go from there.
My original work is much different. I am a plotter to the nth degree. I use a seven point plot structure (some great resources below on that).
Dan Well’s 7 Point Story Structure Youtube series
More on the 7 Point Plot Structure
I also use a website called Trello to help plan and keep track of the editing process. Another link on how to use it for novel planning. I can’t recommend this enough! More under the cut on the wonders of Trello for novel planning. I’ve taken shots of my own Trello board (this is for my manuscript so I did black some things out).
I’m also going to make a plug for Scivener (a word processing program). I will never use Microsoft Word again. Scivener was developed by a company specially for writers. If you write long form, it’s a game changer and, hands down, the best $50 I’ve ever spent. And you only pay it once! Happy to show some screen shots of Scivener and it’s cool features, but I figure this is probably way more than you wanted to know already!
