Inspiration for Slow Burn Fic Authors

Keeping organized when you're writing something that's really long can be difficult, and any discussion of long form writing eventually comes around to how to keep organized while you're writing.

There are two places where most writers start from, which are: you either write chronologically or you don't.

Personally, I've never in my life been able to write chronologically, and I have so much respect for people who can. The following suggestions should be useful whether you write chronologically or not.

What I've taken to doing is having a whiteboard where I list all of my current "active" scenes-- anything that is in-progress that I am working on right at this moment. If I don't work on a scene for more than a week, it gets erased. My current fic is a multi-perspective story, with six main characters that I switch between, so the format I use is:

Character -- Scene name/title/description (notes)

Each character has their own color of wet erase marker, which is an extra help-- notes are jotted down on the other side of the whiteboard, in the color marker that corresponds to the character.

This is, by far the simplest and most fluid way of keeping track of where I am with each character's story/perspective that I've come up with yet, and I hope it'll help anyone who has trouble keeping things straight. If anyone else has a special thing they do to keep organized, share it in the comments!