Anne N. Mouse: Blog

Some of my frustration with my writing is that as my projects grow I gain characters. Even minor characters need to be tracked so that if one appears in the first two thousand words of a sixty thousand word story, I can know the way I described that character and what their name is.
I've found no easy way to do this task or one of tracking places (even rooms in a singular building) and so I'm sitting here frustrated trying to build a DB for an ongoing story and to get it to work for several helps to make my writing progress, rather than spend time creating said DB.
I suspect I could use AI to formulate a DB for me if I could even figure out how to start or where to start on the project.
Frankly, I'd rather be writing, but my projects are stalled due to needing the DB on almost all of them. The only way I can see to do that is to open a secondary file and name it something like Characters for such and such project, then stop writing to add names to a DB as they come up in a story. Which of course interrupts the flow of creating an actual story.
How do other writers deal with this!?

Damsels in Distress stories? Or more to the point, I'm working on a Damsels in Distress story and wondered if someone would be willing to work with me on it?

I'm not a reviewer and while I'll occasionally take the time to write a short set of impressions, so here in is mine of this story...
For whatever reason the author of the story has no means of contacting them without going through several hoops. He says that he's suffered the slings and arrows of various detractors and therefore he has made it difficult to contact him.
Now maybe I'm a bit of a romantic and maybe this site is obscure and the author of Beyond The Mirror has attracted negative attention else where.... IDK
All I can say is that I've written far more controversial material and while I've been criticized mostly I've been taken to task for not finishing my work. Thus it seems odd to me that such a rather staid story if Beyond The Mirror is any indication of the author's other work should draw anyone's particular ire...

yWriter looks like it should be a powerful program. It even says it can import (if I can figure out how!) works in progress. Unfortunately yWriter is very sparse on documentation, so I have to figure out how things work with no examples... (not, mind that some of the examples that windazed gives for finding and transferring stuff are very good) I don't speak or write geek..... And most geeks don't realize that what they speak and write doesn't translate terribly well to English....
I can't imagine trying to translate geek to Spanish!

I've been working on a story where at some points I use among, and others I use amongst. Websters says that they are essentially used the same way, and considers amongst somewhat nonstandard.
I'm thinking that amongst fits in the story I'm working on as I'm trying to give a feeling of a very different sort of story in a very different sort of world....