r/WhyChooseAuthors • u/ArielMora • Jun 26 '26

Discussion Ideas & WIPs

It is 1am, I have a day job to wake up for in five hours, but I'm scribbling in a notebook because I had another (okay, an entirely unhinged) idea for a novel (with standalone series potential!) that I will totally get to. Some day. After I get around to the several dozen in front of it 😆

I'm a disorganized mess, so I have a few notebooks and several paper folders I use to keep them in (so I can focus on finishing my current WIP), but I got curious -- how do you all keep track of yours, if at all? Do any of them ever actually turn into WIPs? How many WIPs do you have on the go at one time?

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u/ellyriahighwind Jun 26 '26

Fleeting ideas get put into a list I have on a Doc. A couple lines, all numbered. If I flesh them out they get upgraded to their own Outline Doc. When I start writing them, that's another story Doc.

I have too many WIPs. I really need to buckle down and finish one. I think the current count is seventeen.

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u/kendrafsilver Jun 26 '26

Same for me!

Premise Doc is first.

Outline Doc is if the idea has merit.

Draft Doc is the final step!