DNA- A BTS Fanfiction

MY WRITING SYSTEM

I'm on a chromebook and it has a text app which is bizzare and slightly aggravating but I used that to type up everything. My notes were all in an essay styled format which got hard to navagate.

I still type up my first rough draft into the text app and then copy it over to Wattpad where I edit it before uploading as soon as I can.

Now for my secret to total organization.

I had several documents for all kinds of information. While it's good to have the documents, I often forgot what was where. My solution? Google slides.

I know, I know, you're probably all tired of it from school and work presentations but bear with me.

First slide: Book title and colorful background
You're going to be looking at this often so don't be afraid to change it often to help boost your mood for your writing.

Second/ third slides: Table of Contents
It helps you get to the right slides quickly. I'm only starting with two but I'll probably need more soon.

At this point, the exact numbers don't really matter. Next, I start with character development. The first slide for each character has two text boxes, one for a brief history and one for personality. I find this important because that's going to be the foundation of your character so you're going to be going to this slide the most to check your basics, if you even need to but it helps to make sure your character is fairly consistant.

The next slide for a character is Important Notes. This is for every reference I'm planning on including or facts about the people themselves for me to incorporate into the story. This can also include quirks, bad habits, or fears they may have.

The last slide, as of now, in each character segment is Descriptions/ Outfits. As BTS pretty much has a new hair color in every era, I have to note the hair color that I chose so I don't mix them up. Outfits are important for later mentioning instead of looking through thousands of words to find one description. If you're not mentioning their outfits at any point after bringing them up, you don't need to keep track of what they're wearing.

In my system, each character has their own color for their slides so that they can be easily spotted in the side bar.

The next slides are important details of each chapter so I can always check in at what point the story is at. I have one slide per chapter but if you have more important things going on in each chapter, you can easily add several slides per chapter. In these slides, each character's name is in their color so I can quickly check to see if they have made an appearance in that chapter or not.

I still use my text app to keep track of who's yet to meet and references I have yet to decide if I want to add among other things.

If you want to apply this technique to other genres, you can add a segment of slides for world or cities, histories of minor characters, job positions, legends, or anything else of importance. If you're struggling with organizing your thoughts, I recommend trying this for a few weeks at least. This may not work for everyone but if you lose track of exactly what's going on and has been written, I think it's worth a shot.

Don't be afraid to comment or critique me/ my writing, your comments help motivate me to write! If you've made it through this long chapter of boringness, give me a vote or comment so I know I'm not just talking into the void. I hope you like it so far!