WIP Challenge Check-in, Day 27 -- Thursday

[linaewen]

Hello on Thursday! What kind of a writing day has it been for you?

• I thought about my fic once or twice
• I wrote
• I did some planning and/or research
• I edited
• I've sent my fic off to my beta
• I posted today!
• I'm taking a break
• I did something else that I'll talk about in a comment

For Discussion: How do you keep track of characters and plot lines?

I'm having a slow start to my day, but I plan on finishing up a challenge fic or two today.  As for keeping track of things, I'm a big fan of outlines which include a chronology, lists of characters and the various plot lines that are in progress.  It's still a bit of a mess sometimes as a couple of my WIPs are getting unwieldy, but my outline helps me sort things out.  Once or twice I had to repair something important I forgot to mention in the proper place through the use of flashbacks, because I forgot to include the plot point in the outline!