Write your novel faster with a story world wiki

Create an easily searchable story bible using a wiki structure

Real talk. When you say you don’t have enough time to write, chances are that time already exists in your day.

You just aren’t giving that available time the respect it deserves, because it’s “too small.” It’s a half hour, or twenty minutes. Fifteen minutes, even.

God knows you’re tired. You’ve got a lot of other shit going on each day. Family commitments, household chores, daily work, maybe a commute pressed up against someone else’s armpit or bumper the whole time.

So a little, unassuming chunk of time doesn’t seem like it’d be very helpful. By the time you remember where you were in your story and what you wanted to write next, that time’s already over, right?

It doesn’t have to be that way. You can approach that writing time already mentally prepared and oriented.

I’m going to share a tip that will help you make use of limited time for writing by keeping your story world clear and compelling in your head.

In a story universe wiki such as the above, each significant (or not so significant!) character, place, object, time period, faction, and so forth gets its own page.

There are then links in that page to take you to other pages related to that one. For example, if you’re reading the page about the hobbit Déagol, you can easily follow links to read about Sméagol, the Gladden river, the one Ring, etc.

You can do the same thing for your own story world, to easily keep track of important details in your work-in-progress. And you don’t even need an ad-laden wiki-building website to do so.

I recommend using Evernote, OneNote, Google Keep, or whatever your favorite note-keeping app is (you can even do this by hand, but it’s…

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