I’m halfway through entering my Christmas romance for the year, Kringle in the Night, as I edit it one more time to make it ready for the Christmas season. I would advise to enter what is needed and leave the other bells and whistles alone. timeline tool that allows you to create your own fantasy calendar system.
Being a plantser (planner/pantser) writer, I don’t know that I would know all the events before using this tool such that I could use it at the beginning. Get instant savings with 27 valid Aeon Timeline Coupon Codes & discounts in. I feel possessed to put in all the entity data and use all the categories when developing the event, and this can be a lot of work. The bad thing about this is all the data entry. If I set it up before, I could actually import it into Scrivener (my writing software) and the timeline would show up. This is probably the wrong way to use it. I often make it after writing the book in my proofreading stage. The good thing about Aeon Timeline (to me) is that I can see that timeline, and in making it, I can ‘feel’ that timeline. (But it would be an unwieldy timeline spanning 6000 years.) If I ever make the unified timeline for all my novels, I could use that. Notice I don’t use the birth/death blanks because I’m not writing epic fantasy. Note on the left the window will also let you define story arcs and enter different places. I recommend using this box rather than the ‘add entity’ box because you can manage things better here. You can add entities here (to add anywhere, click a ‘plus’ button) and edit them. Those are used as sorting prompts, and I haven’t found myself gravitating toward that function yet.īelow is what the ‘entity’ window looks like: Below that to the right there’s data such as participants and observers, story arc, and location. I do not use ‘parent’ because it ties everything to a preceding event and my mind doesn’t function that way. On the event side, you can see at the top the event data - title, color, and parent. On the right, you can see an event (the one highlighted on the left). In my case, it’s color-coded to match a template I have for romance writing. Here is a screenshot of my current project:
It organizes itself around two concepts: events and entities. Then I discovered Aeon Timeline, a program that helps you organize a timeline by chapters or individual events, characters involved, and other potentially important characteristics. And flipping back and forth between chapters makes it hard to remember the sequence.
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I used to sit with a calendar and make notes on the Scrivener file, chapter by chapter, but then I didn’t get the full picture I had no one document where I could look at the whole timetable. Even though I write fast-paced plots that run over a few weeks or a month, I lose track of the time and suddenly two different plot points are happening at the same time. I have a somewhat tenuous relationship with time, and nowhere does it show up more than when I’m writing.
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