Will's Story Worksheet

Probably a period in my writing life has never existed when I had only one story in the works. Thus, the worksheet lets you log into a different story with a pen name change or by specifying a different access key. You'll see what I mean when you load the Story Worksheet.

I made the story worksheet to accomodate the way I write novels and short stories. I neither do a discover-the-story-as-I-write freeflow nor do I outline everything before writing. It's kinda something in between.

Generally, I have a chapter that starts the story — which may or may not stay in that position. (The 3rd volume of the Pursuit. trilogy got the original starting chapter, for example.) I like to have an ending chapter written for a point to write toward, although my story visualization isn't always immediately clear enough to write the ending.

Most of all, the way I create a story is by writing a scene here and a scene there, then lining them up. Thus, the worksheet allows scenes to be rearranged.

Most things about the worksheet will be self-explanatory for fiction writers. But let me mention three things especially:

Defining my major characters is important for me. So you'll find a section for that near the top of the worksheet.

Something else important for me, and probably for every writer of multi-chapter fiction stories, is to keep track of people and place names, when and where things happened, and other stuff that are likely to be referred to later in the story. So you find a section for that, too.

Within the Scenes section is an "Omit" checkbox. When the checkbox is checked, the scene can be used for notes or ideas that won't publish unless you explicitly state it (see the Export Worksheet button).

The software has no built-in limit to how big a book you can write with the Story Worksheet.