Writing Tips: Setting Up Your Writing

Organization is important in life and in writing, too. If you're writing in a document, organizing is just a few clicks away. But if you're writing in a journal... let's just say things can go crazy.

So if you already  have a bunch of writing spread between notebooks or on scraps of paper, it's good to get them together.

For loose papers, it's good to get a binder.

The ring size depends on your need. I prefer one or one and a half inch binders. So hole punch away(and add reinforcement stickers) and add in dividers. Sort it in the way that your mind works. It might be by genre, character, or world.

After that, you'll have a nicely sorted binder of writing.

For journals, if you're going to write more than one thing in it, or you know you will, write a table of contents for the first few pages. Number all the pages in the journal. You can write the name of the piece of writing, chapter, etc.

Have fun organizing! You'll feel refreshed afterward.

-The Nocturnal Writer