Is anyone working on a long-form lit-fic project? If so, how are you organising your work? And what does your overall process look like?
I'm using Google Docs with folders for different chapters but have lots of fragments of writing that I think will feed into the project in some way, shape or form, but are currently getting lost in the ether.
My process follows a rough shape of broadly free writing for an hour or so several times a week, then maybe some editing or organising in the afternoons/evenings.
Writing more on the weekends, and having phases which are more generative, and ones which are more focused around editing things into shape for my crits.
My project is a narrative piece, but it's also to an extent autofictional, and blends together narrative with essay and other forms, and is trying to resist the urge to be too rigidly structured/plotted, so I'm trying to feel it out as I go.
But having reached some 40,000 words or so, I'm finding it more and more difficult to get the oversight I need, and my laissez-faire organisational methods are beginning to come back to bite me in the arse.
I also do a lot of writing in notebooks, which are a pain in the arse to transcribe — my current method is recording myself reading them out & using the transcripts, but doesn't always work the best.