How does you maintain a consistent schedule of publishing chapters, some of which are released every day, without leaving plot holes or inconsistencies in your stories? What kind of detailed outlining and organizing processes do you use to ensure a chapter is cleanly drafted and published on the same day?
T_one no one awnsers so this is the Chatgpt awnser : My approach to maintaining consistency in my writing is usually to outline the whole story in advance of writing it. I will start by creating a detailed synopsis outlining each chapter’s plot points, character interactions and general story arc, before breaking this down further into individual chapters. As I go along, I keep detailed notes (such as character motivations, plot points or future story elements) while ensuring that they synchronize with the main plan and make sure that the constantly updated progress matches up to the outline and without compromising or overlooking any details.
Once I have completed the outline and broken each chapter down into separate parts, such as conversations, action scenes or other pivotal moments in the plot - I can use this information to create a timed calendar schedule that outlines when each of these points needs to be released. This allows me to plan out how quickly each story element needs to be drafted so that there are no gaps between chapters where information about characters or plot points might become lost or forgotten. Furthermore, by having a concrete timeline and plan for what needs to be released when, it makes it much easier for me to ensure that all necessary elements are included in each chapter; thus resulting in cleanly written drafts which adhere closely to my preplanned ideas for the novel.
Updating daily is indeed hard and sometimes, it gets kinda stressful. Especially since I have an 8-5 job and only writes from 7-11pm.
I don't focus that much on outlining. It never worked for me. I do very detailed character designs. Their desires, misbelief, and fears. Give them motivation and other stuff like that. Then a hardcore world building. I see to it I am familiar with my world's nooks and cranny to avoid confusions to both me and the readers. In my case, I used my own city. I changed the names of the places and gave them background stories. That way, I can just use our city map for a solid guide. I also love adding fantasy elements to it and no one will know. Then preparation complete.
I throw my characters in the world I just created. Give them a conflict or put them in a predicament that's kinda hard to get out and I will let the personality I created for them dictate how they will respond to the problem I gave them. It's a very fun process.
Every author has different ways. Plotters, pantsers, hybrids whatever. This is simply mine. Doing this makes it easier and faster for me. It's just the editing part that consumes a lot of time. Chopping off big chucks of parts is painful for me. My technique for this is I leave that chapter 2-3 days before I edit it. That way, I'm no longer as attached as I was on the first day.
This may not be much but I hope this will help you.
Thank you, I really appreciate it and wich you the best writing your novel.
Normally I go with the flow, when there's a tiny gap somewhere within a work or study schedule. That's when I'll insert a pre-planned line or 2 each time.
I only started writing 2 weeks ago so I'm not very experienced. However I've managed to publishs chapters (of 1.2 to 1.5 words on avarage) daily since then.
I have a story I wish to tell, and I also have events I want to write, other than that, I write the characters and let them lead the story, not very different of how a DnD campaign would go.
Before I started writing, I took some time to define the world, it's rules, the people who lived in it and how they lived in it. And based on that, it's been very easy to write about places and characters. From there I write about what they want and what they would do.
It's been working pretty well so far. I don't feel like I will burn out any time soon. I have a lot of fun writing and I have people who actually collected the book and read it when I publish (something I never expected when I started writing), that alone gives me the enouragement to keep going.
