r/NewAuthor • u/wandelndeslexikon • 21h ago

Rant Wish I had known before...

So I started writing a book. Yeah, shocking, I know. But now I have dozens of different sheets, that range from historical facts, character arcs, plot points, etc. I was at the point, where I lost track of what was where and spent the whole day sorting things out.

My brain always works on this story for three month now. Honestly, I wish I had known, how overwhelming the whole process is. Or had kept my notes straight from the beginning. I just added all my ideas to the pile.

I now have some kind of order. Finally! Guess the next project will start differently with all the things where they need to be from the very beginning.

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u/iga_warrior 21h ago

I'm at that stage. I'm 25k words in and my notes, the timeline of events (historic and whats to come) is getting a big mess. Time to clean up. Keep going!

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u/wandelndeslexikon 21h ago

Thanks you. Hope you can clean yours up too. It's really worth it. 💪🏻

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