03 / ways in / for fiction writers
talk your book.
dialogue sounds right out loud before it reads right on the page. worldbuilding happens on walks. plot holes fix themselves in the car.
offcam catches the scene while it's alive, and hands you a transcript to shape into the chapter, the fic update, or the lore doc.
say something like
- 01act the argument between your two leads. both sides, out loud
- 02describe the city like you're walking through it
- 03the backstory that will never make it into the book but explains everything
- 04the dream that wants to be a short story. file it under dream
where it goes
- a chapter draft from a commute of talking
- the fic update your readers have been refreshing for
- a lore and worldbuilding archive, searchable on your own device
- posts about the process, for the author platform you keep being told you need
what does the work
- buckets keep the novel separate from the grocery list: spark, channel, journal, dream, notes, task
- add-on recordings: today's scene appends to yesterday's chapter
- edit the transcript directly when a line needs tightening
- everything backs up to your own google drive, organized into folders
two minutes of talking. see what it becomes.