How to map out a novel efficiently? I'm redrafting 90k

>>9150893
If you are doing it on the computer, make a text file, that you can store 'novel words' that may be relevant to certain sections, or even just every so often write

((((chapter 2)))

skhfkdshfkjsdhg
ldshgkdlsg

((chapter 3 ... talking about the kitchen

(section 4.... going to the bathroom)


so then you can use the 'find' feature on the word processor:

So if you wake up in the middle of the night and think of wanting to include the toothpaste brand in the bathroom scene but dont remember where in the 500,000 word document the bathroom scene is:

Find: toilet

etc.

If you are doing it all on paper: you need either a time machine to the past, or the future (where there is the text to in seconds scan all your pages and upload key words into your hard/soft drive cloud space ibrain face attachment that does what I originally said for you)

>>9150957
Yeah I do this in Google docs by making Chapter headings and a contents at the beginning, it's more to do with the different characters, the mindset they have at the time, where in the story they are and how they feel about other characters etc. I find myself going to a chapter where I write about something before realising it occurred somewhere else or "wait X has fallen out with Y by this point" etc.

>>9150893

Is it possible you're having trouble because nothing remarkable happens in your novel?

>>9151621
if it was flat and simple with a few plot points it would be fucking easy to plan.