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Tip 9: Planning out your story

Tip 9: Planning out your story.

This step is very important; in fact, I wish I could've made it the first step. Do you have a character that does several things? For example, they have a job, they do community service, and they go to after school clubs? It's hard to remember all of this, right? Sometimes, it's hard to remember their middle name or little facts that you said once a few chapters ago!

I personally have a Google Doc for each book I write where I write down little facts and tidbits about the characters to keep up consistency. You want to remember the little details, whether it's the fact that the character is lactose intolerant or that they're allergic to peanut butter.

Your character page can go something like this:

Name:
Age:
Race/Ethnicity:
Location/Address:
Height:
Weight:
Eye color:
Religion:
Hair color:
Occupation/Activities:
Pets:
Type of Car they drive:
Grade:
Family Background:
Way they dress:
Likes:
Dislikes:
Weird Habits:
What they think of themself:
What others think of them:
Friends:
Enemies:

I also advise you to keep a calendar of events that take place in the story. For example, you'd start it when the two characters (if a love story) meet and end it when they don't. You'd put important things in there like the first date, first kiss, meeting friends, and stuff like that.

Another important thing you can do is make a three column table with about 25 or so rows. You label one column with Chapter #, the second column with date, and the third with description. In that table, you'd give a brief description of each chapter and a timeline of when it took place so that you can keep track of what's going on in your story. 

Believe it or not, this keeps not only the characters organized, but it keeps the story organized. It may be a lot of extra work but I find that my most successful stories are the ones that I've kept up with like this.