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threewaysdivided · 2 years ago

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Praise be to the ‘story bible’

I am so glad that I decided to create a set of reference files mapping out Deathly Weapons’ plot beats and character arcs back when I was deep in the planning phase for this fic. I would have absolutely no chance at keeping track of all the fine details and foreshadowing without it, and no ability to maintain my energy/enthusiasm for such a long project (especially after all the sequel bullshit) without so much of the groundwork already being done.

Anyway, point is that my arc notes reminded me to go back to a future mid-game conversation between M’gann and Phantom and add a couple of lines to foreshadow a later piece of the strategic endgame. Thank you, arc notes.

Screencaps under the cut for those curious about my outlining system:

My ‘story bible’ folder:

My chapter files folder:

How I outline the mission chapters:

#Young Justice: Deathly Weapons #writing update #outlining #(sort of)#highly recommend the story bible method for long-fics #it saves so much time referring back to stuff #3WD #also / minor rant incoming #I am mildly salty that I #an undoubtedly foolish lone individual doing this as a hobby round full time work/study #came up with this system as a time-save/ general good practice for my story #and meanwhile the utter TWERP they left in charge of the official sequels #couldn't be arsed keeping track of BASIC facts like #'why did Supermartian break up?' / 'When did M'gann first return to Mars?' / 'What's Nightwing's CHARACTER MOTIVATION'#like. good grief. it's not that hard to outdo little old me #especially not on the fundamentals #/rant over

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