Just realized I used to plan my stories by drawing messy maps on napkins, now I use spreadsheets like a freak

Back in 2018 I wrote a whole fantasy trilogy outline on coffee stained napkins from a diner on Route 9. My friends thought I was nuts. Last month I caught myself making a color coded spreadsheet with character arcs, plot points, and word count goals per chapter. The change happened after I lost a napkin mid revision and had to rewrite half a plot from memory. Took me 3 weeks to fix. Now I'm all digital. Anyone else go full spreadsheet mode or am I the only one who traded napkins for formulas?

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cooper.reese1d ago

Kind of a dramatic reaction to losing a napkin, dont you think lol.

val_wilson18h agoTop Commenter

Right?! I once cried over a lost ketchup packet, not my finest moment.