Guides
Writing a story that outgrows your memory
Long stories fail in ways short ones never do. These are working methods for the problems that only show up at chapter forty: continuity you cannot hold in your head, a story bible that survives a deadline, and a cast that grew without anyone deciding it should.
Writing a serial
3 guides
- How to keep continuity straight past chapter 100How to track continuity in a long-running web serial: what to record, when to record it, and how to answer a chapter-140 question without rereading the archive.9 minute read
- Writing a web serial in Google Docs: how far it goesThe Google Docs setup that carries a serial furthest, the hard limit you will hit around chapter 80, and the one problem no folder structure fixes.7 minute read
- Turning a web serial into a bookWhat the KDP Select agreement actually says about your Royal Road archive, two timing traps nobody mentions, and how to cut a serial into a book.13 minute read
Moving your story bible
3 guides
- A story bible in Obsidian: how far the vault goesThe vault setup that serves a story bible best, the two limits that arrive as the cast grows, and how to leave with every note, link and alias intact.8 minute read
- Leaving NovelCrafter with your whole codexWhat a NovelCrafter export actually contains, the one feature that does not export at all, and how to move the codex and manuscript without retyping either.7 minute read
- How to get your world out of World AnvilWhere the World Anvil export actually lives, what the saved page does and does not contain, and how to move a whole world of articles without copying and pasting.7 minute read
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