I just spent a couple hours doing a rough character sheet and chronology for ~20 major events in my novel, so I'm enthusiastic, tired, and off to a decent start I think. the notes .doc came out to exactly 1337 words. Tomorrow... world-building!
Do you have a particular schema you follow for these notes or are you just writing down what comes to you as it comes?
I... sort of write what comes out as it comes to me, while organizing it in an outline format once most of it is down. Here's the general idea I used for
Crawl, my nano novel:
Title: The Boats of Murder
Genre: Dwarven RNG Epic
Synopsis: The dwarfy odd couple bonds over flaming elephants.
Characters:
Urist - surly, moody, enjoys strawberry wine.
Fikod - feminine, dainty beard, noble birth but a hard worker
Chronology:
Urist and Fikod meet in the crowded dining hall. Fikod's father (The baron) causes tensions. They argue.
There's an elephant siege. Urist and Fikod are both drafted by the overseer.
They bond during the victory feast by singing Klingon opera.
(list of complications)
Urist and Fikod get married and have dozens of dwarflets.
Once that's out, if interesting things come to me I just add it where it should reasonably go. The world-building documents will probably look and read like small dungeon maps of a D&D module, with mostly environment details that I can reference later on for consistency of details and setting.
I should point out that I
have to do this to keep me focused and on-task later when crunch-time shows up and I can't afford to faff about re-plotting stuff that doesn't quite "fit" in mid-November. The more I get done now, the more I can focus on getting from A to B in a timely fashion later.
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