You know, suddenly I’m really glad I never hit backspace for more than a few words. With the recent chapter of Searching the Depths now up, I get to finally introduce some characters to each other, and because I’ve tried writing it a few times before, some of those old attempts that were decent have gotten reused and shined up. I’m hoping this means I can share it soon. XD But there’s some details to work out still.
But yeah, even though I haven’t updated the fic in a while, it doesn’t mean I haven’t been writing. Sometimes when I’m stuck working in-sequence, I’ll go and write something that I know is coming up farther along. So I’ve had a few attempts at things, meaning I can perfect them when the moment’s time comes.
One thing that helps me keep my doc organized is using headings. I don’t know how to do this for something like a word doc, but on Google Docs, this is useful, so I’m gonna share it here.
Every time I make a new chapter, I write out the chapter and its name, then I set it to the text style of “Heading 1.” That way, I get this nifty little side menu, and if I click on the chapter I want, it’ll jump me right to it. That’s actually why I have that weird row of 6′s in there, I needed to remind myself to edit something mid-chapter, so that’s a placeholder with the heading style so I can jump to it easily. Sometimes though, if I write in all caps, it’ll apply a subheading? Even when it’s not all caps, sometimes it just does that at random points (like in Too Many Eyes’ draft). Hence the “YOINK!” there, I don’t know why it does that at random, but hey, I make use of it. But yeah, if you’re working on a long fic and need to move around it easier, I highly recommend using headings, it’s been a great timesaver. You’d be surprised how many people I’ve talked to that don’t know about this feature.