#my planning

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WIP Planning - Notebooks

Today I thought I would show you where I am doing my planning, and what it looks like. I find visuals very helpful for when I want to do something, so this post will have a good number of pictures in.

The Notebooks

These are the four notebooks I use for my writing work. From right to left: Short Stories and poems, Character Info, Echoes of Eternity, the Jack of Diamonds. I’ll break these notebooks down below the cut, and look at how I use them.

Short Story Notebook

This is my most battered and well travelled notebook, having gone with me on many holidays and walks, been stained with lichen, had tea dropped on it, and so on. With this notebook, I write out any short story ideas that won’t necessarily be fanfic and make it onto AO3, do writing exercises and prompts, and jot down the occasional tentative poem. It is really helpful to have a notebook for odds and ends that you are happy to have dropped and stained, as it gives you somewhere to store ideas without worrying too much about how they look. I do like to draw/doodle in the notebook if I have space, but it is by no means good drawing, and I’m happy with hoe sketchy everything is.

Character Information Notebook

This is a reusable notebook, which means I can fill it with different types of paper, and then take out the inserts when they are full. This gives me a flexibility of usage, as I have lined and blank paper, so I have decided to use it to store character information. I already talked about how I organise my character info here, but the visual is often helpful. I haven’t started using the blank paper yet, but I mean to sketch my characters, and some of the scenes/ items from my WIPs. I am aware there are lots of digital versions of this notebook, all of which are excellent in their own right, but I enjoy the labour of handwriting, as it gives me more time to think about it, and means I can carry my characters in a very physical way.

Echoes of Eternity Notebook

Perversely, given my other novel WIP is set in London, this notebook (which has a map of mid-Victorian London as the cover illustration) is where I plan and world-build for Echoes. This is my oldest notebook, and still has the first chapters of my original ideas in the early pages. Since then the notion has undergone several changes, but the sense of continuity this notebook brings makes me happy. All my planning and world-building in here is very messy, and there is no real order to wether I have a playlist for the WIP written next to the lore creation myth, or a random character backstory prompt side by side with a timeline. It’s chaos, and I imagine all the world-building will be added to a new notebook some day to ensure it makes sense.

Jack of Diamonds Notebook

This is my newest notebook - viz my post about my outlining problem - so it hasn’t got much in it at present. However, I intend to keep outlining and research notes in here, as well as any world-building I might have to do, and possibly some drawings if I feel brave. We shall see what the future holds for this notebook.

Hope that is helpful and interesting for people. Happy Writing! 🌿

[opt1gan]

Two movies I like

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(also feel free in the tags to clarify Why you made the choice you made!! :0c)

[hinamie]

newest issue of first years fashion just dropped

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That infamous prison escape.

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Okay guys

INPRNT!!

[potofsoup]

Oh look, it seems like there's a Republican-led movement to purge voter rolls in the lead-up to the election! It's almost as if your vote matters and they don't want you to vote! Anyway, I whipped up a quick map (based on this) that shows when the voter registration deadline is in each state. There are a few deadlines coming up in the next week or so.

If you live in a state that regularly purges voter rolls for infrequent voters (the orange ones in the first map), or if you moved recently, it's good to check if you're still registered to vote.

Vote.org makes it super easy to check your registration: https://www.vote.org/am-i-registered-to-vote/

Just put in your address and DOB and they'll tell you whether you're registered. (And they give you a quick link to register online if it turns out that you're not! Only the 9 states in white on my map don't have online registration, and for those they provide instructions on how to do it via mail or in person.) If you want an extra verification, find your state's election website and double-check there.

So yeah, give yourself peace of mind -- do a quick check. :)

[noka-exe]

unfortunate series of events at the charity gala

[linktoo-doodles]

experimenting

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I'm back (x)

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Roronoa Zoro

[jirainene]

venting is only annoying when i do it btw. everyone else is innocent and free of sin

stop reblogging this dawg this post wasnt supposed to breach containment 😭😭

[skorpionegrass]

finally finished my mlp human designs ^^ i hope i can draw more of them in the future

[stealingpotatoes]

i love comparing the fake stories that each twin was told

(commission info // tip jar!)

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I offer you: Tim Drake being absolutely demolished in a way or another for being good at videogames, both by his opponent and his own teammate

Recently this is the only thing capable of pumping some dopamine in my ADHD brain so this is what u get lol

More to come!