writingtipsandtricks:Hello my fellow writers. Most people have heard of Evernote by now, but a lot o
writingtipsandtricks:Hello my fellow writers. Most people have heard of Evernote by now, but a lot of people (myself included) thought/think that it’s purely for business or shopping lists and what not. I’m here to tell you that it’s not just for business. It can be a valuable tool for plotting and organizing your novel!I’ve blurred out all the super pertinent details for my current project as well as my email address, but here’s how I set it all up.1. Download Evernote. There are paid versions, but for what we’ll be doing, the free version works just as well. You have to make an account, because everything is in cloud storage, unless you make a local notebook. 2. Set everything up and make your first notebook. Title it however you want. 3. Make Notes in the Notebook. Obviously, you can do this however you want, but here are some note blocks to get you started; -Plot: Here’s where you’ll put your premise, summary or outline-Setting: Here’s where you’ll describe your setting. I found a cool thing when I was searching for Evernote templates that has key questions to answer about setting. Find it HERE. (If you have an evernote account, you can add it straight to your notebook!)-Misc Ideas/Notes: This is just a place to jot down things you may think of that may not fit into any category or are incomplete. (I have lists of names and potential titles in mine)-Characters: This is to hash out your characters!-Snippets: I don’t always write in the right order or I’ll think of something a character might say or do, or a particularly awesome description I don’t need quite yet and I can add it here.-Character Profiles: This was something I added because I found a really nice 100 question survey thing for characterization and I didn’t want to clog up my character page for this. I only did this for my four main characters, but as far as I know, there are no limits to how many notes you can have in a notebook. I hope this helps someone out! I’m really excited about this because I’ve been having trouble getting my ideas sorted out in my head and this has really, really made things easier to see and think about!Back to work!-AmandaP.S. It occurred to me that this could seem sponsored and I assure you that Evernote is not paying me to promote them, though if they did, I wouldn’t say no because money is nice. However, I’m nowhere near popular enough for that, so you guys probably have nothing to worry about! Happy writing! -- source link
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