What is your opinion of stories that switch between different time periods? I have a story which is set in the present but that revolves around...
I have a question about multi-timeline plots. I want to write a crime/mystery novel based in an English market/tourist town in the mid-eighties....
I found a new trick. Sheetplanner is a sort of to-do list/project manager that will do most of what OmniOutliner will do, and it will do one...
If you are writing a fantasy or a science fiction, how do you come up with the year(s) its all taking place? The first example that comes to mind...
Hello everyone, This is my first post on this forum and I came here in desperate hope to get unstuck from where I am at the moment. So, here's...
Those of you who have made a timeline for your novels, how did you go about doing it? -What year did you start at? -Did you go all the way back...
I'm writing a novel. Actually two that are linked, but with a story twist that makes sense as two separate books. I found that my approach to...
@KaTrian and I dislike time jumps in our novels, so we try to avoid them. However, we seem to have just written ourselves into a rather tight...
Trying something new: using the genealogy software I already have to keep my characters, their relationships, and their life events straight....
I jut started a new story. It begins with my MC getting stabbed (not dying) The next paragraph is sort of the backstory as to how he got up to...
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