Comments on: Nano Tip #9: Meta-Documents

By: Marilyn Clarke

Marilyn Clarke — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 23:35:13 +0000

I’m starting book four in a series and I write all kinds of reference papers for each book. I have synopsis of characters, personality traits, I even found pictures of some of the houses inside and out. I write vague timelines to keep ages of people straight but the day by day thing is interesting even for the character not in play in the chapter. My problem is I’m not real organized with all this stuff. I got started with putting some things in a file in my computer but there is still a lot of handwritten pages just floating around in notebooks, totes, desks etc. I cant seem to make myself do a completed outline of what is happening beforehand though. Sometimes about halfway through I will outline the remaining chapters and figure out what needs to happen approximately to finish up.

By: alw

alw — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 00:19:35 +0000

what positive contribution have you made yo society? and a timeline about your life during writting the books.

By: Stomach Bloating

Stomach Bloating — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 04:50:56 +0000

i really like to color my hair and i would love to try different hair colors specially auburn ..”

By: Migraine Relief :

Migraine Relief : — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 12:40:58 +0000

there are many hair colors out there but i alway prefere blondes;*”

By: Maniacinthemaking

Maniacinthemaking — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:59:51 +0000

Wow, all these tips are so helpful! I do a lot of writing both for myself and for fanfiction.net. I was surprised by how many of the tricks I use already like timelines, making a daily routine for writing and reading things through to delete over used words – I’m also a victim of ‘just’ and (bizarrely) ‘without warning’ which I seem to write about four times every day each!

I love Parasite Positive and since I’ve been working in a book store, I wrote my own little review about it that hangs proudly on the wall next to it. Success!

By: JaiKaiLai

JaiKaiLai — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:41:16 +0000

I just felt like commenting on your blog after I saw what it was in the Bogus to Bubbly book. You are definitely my favorite author of all time. I have a ton of your books and I think that Peeps was so good. I read it in one day. I liked how every other chapter was information on random parasites. I read the whole Uglies/Pretties/Specials/Extras series, too.

By: Maggie-la

Maggie-la — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 03:07:55 +0000

I didn’t know they were called meta-documents, but I always keep these when I am writing an original story. I write out a summary of my ideas, because I always forget, and I don’t want to forget the main idea of my story, that would make it poitnless….then I usually map out my characters, names, age, birthday, looks, personality, etc. But that’s good advice, I’ll start adding what I’ve already written into the meta

By: Julie-wa

Julie-wa — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:23:12 +0000

I wonder what other meta-document he’ll talk about today.

By: Summer

Summer — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:56:22 +0000

Thank you thank you thank you for the tips!

By: Jay-wa

Jay-wa — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:45:38 +0000

The Timeline business really helped me, because before I was just typing stuff, but now I have some form of direction. I’m going to start a metadoc sometime…
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