i realised two things when i was about to fall asleep last night
one: i give all my 35-40+ male characters hard jobs where they need to distance themselves from dead bodies and never think about them as people or someone and i don’t think it says anything about me lol.
two: finally realised what metalsea is really about. belonging. how can someone belong to somewhere, what if wherever you go you’ll never belong truly, does that mean you need to belong to someone then? and at the end, how to belong to yourself first and foremost. something like that.
Hi! Jacques told me you like using Notion for planning writing stuff, and I'd love to hear more about your methods!! :3 (this is the main of @keyboardandquill)
Hi @jadefyre! 🥺 I’m sorry this took me so long, energy is hard to find these days. You’re the loveliest for this ask nevertheless, so thank you so much 💕
Honestly, I use Notion for everything related to my writing now lol. It’s a ridiculously effective platform for planning and I think executing too. Tho, I should warn you that my things are still a mess, but with the help of this I could get as organized as I could be. Kinda step by step tour of my Notion pages below.
I think I have a very simple method actually. I have a main page where I keep all my prompts (from tumblr games) and my random ideas that I want to use it somewhere. These are the ones I reach for when I don't have an idea what to write, or just wanna have some fun/ clear out my drafts. Tho, I always try to make them canon scenes, so I use them up in my manuscript somehow. Template I costumized by souls collide.
For my ongoing projects, however, I make separate accounts because I love doing worldbuilding stuff and I found it more helpful to have everything related to one story in one place. The prompts are the only exceptions, but, when I'm done with them I move them to the project accounts they belong too.
I'll go with the Metalsea page, becuase that's the most developed since my main focus is on this story recently.
So, on my Project Page, I usually keep all the scattered ideas that I wanna put into the story, plus the character and side story idea pages. I usually have a lot of side story ideas, since I wanna explore and stay in my worlds as long as I can lol.
In my World page (which is Onidia in this case), I collect the main locations and I sort all the infos about them inside those pages. I basically use these as little lexicons of each place because I always loved the idea of those. I put Laqounia's underneath as an example. Excuse my messiness with switching between languages inside the docs, I scribble fresh ideas down in my main one.
And then there's the Outline part where I keep my outline and all the random scenes I'm writing out of order when the inspiration hits me. I like to see how many on-going stuff I have, how many is just in a brainstorming stage etc. That's why I usually use kinda of a lot labels, while also I leave summaries for myself for the scenes too.
Inside the Book I-II-III-IV are the chapter by chapter outline (only for Book I yet and that even a full one either). I'm mostly doing the our of order scenes, so. Oh, well.
Well, this is how I use Notion for writing and I love every bit of it ngl, so I hope I could give you something useful or at least interesting. If you have any other questions, ask away!
Since autumn started (even though it's still very hot sometimes) I'll just share my playlist for this season, because my dash is dry and I'll get you guys some stuff only after sept 18th.
