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olivierkes / manuskript

A open-source tool for writers
http://www.theologeek.ch/manuskript
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Plots & Resolution steps: more granular references? #476

Open worstje opened 5 years ago

worstje commented 5 years ago

I have spent the past two days slowly getting to know Manuskript and completely lack a literary foundation, so if I try to abuse the program to work in a way it is not meant to be, please forgive me.

Because I am writing an indepth origins story and have written a considerable chunk of it already, my plots are quite clearly defined: I know where I have to go, and I know how some of it has happened, and I also roughly how I want the remaining things to happen. I have figured out how to insert references so that the relevant plots pop up on the editor timeline, but I would like to be able to check in on the progress the worked-out plots more thoroughly.

Some stages in a plot may take a while and be an accumulation of tiny events. For example, why does a character decide to try smoking? Is it peer pressure? Do they want to belong? Do they get the impression of it being cool? My resolution plot would merely contain that 'they notice a lot of people around them who smoke', but that cannot be a chapter on its own. It is a slow realization. Those same chapters might dabble in some other steps of the same plot because that happens to be work out that way, meaning the result isn't strictly limited to the order I initially envisioned when plotting.

I'd love to be able to add references to chapters referencing resolution steps, and then be able to look at my resolution steps in the plots screen to find chapters where those particular details are worked out without having to check through all the other texts related to that plot.

Rather than focusing on word-based completion goals, that would allow me to focus on plot-based completion.

Anne501R commented 2 years ago

Hi, thanks for contributing. Since the issues was created some time ago, I want to add that this would be a feature that I as a plotter would also love to have in the software.