Spent the evening organizing notes for Part Two of Nethermore. Whizfolders, the program I mentioned a few days ago, is a superb tool for outlining a novel. It’s also great for organizing the random notes and things that come along with writing. In the future I can see using at least two of these files for each novel. One would be for the book’s “bible,” which would include notes on the characters (descriptions, motivations, etc), notes on the countries, magic systems, languages, and whatever else I need as far as reference. The second file would hold the outline and storyline brainstorming.

The program is surprisingly simple. It has a two-pane window which you can customize to be side-by-side or top and bottom. The left side has a hierarchy of notes with titles that represent what is contained in each note. The right side shows the contents of the note that is selected.

I started by creating three notes, labeled “Part One,” “Part Two,” and “Part Three.” From there, I started filling in the gaps, focusing primarily on Part Two, since that’s the part that I’m about to start writing.

Whiz Folders

Anyway, I’ve been searching for something to help organize the book, and I think Whizfolders is the solution. I’ll definitely be buying the full version when my 30-day trial runs out.