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Q&A How to keep my ideas organized and respecting a timeline?

I've always wanted to get into writing but always found myself coming up with increments of an event that already happened or imagine something that would only happen a bit ahead, distracting me fr...

2 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Filipe Carvalheira‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

#3: Attribution notice added by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T12:17:43Z (over 4 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/q/46232
License name: CC BY-SA 3.0
License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
#2: Initial revision by user avatar Filipe Carvalheira‭ · 2019-12-08T12:17:43Z (over 4 years ago)
I've always wanted to get into writing but always found myself coming up with increments of an event that already happened or imagine something that would only happen a bit ahead, distracting me from where the story is currently at.

What would be the best plan for this? Backtrack every time I want to give extra detail to what I already wrote/skip ahead while I have the idea for a future event in mind?

(If it's not clear enough) How do I deal with incoming ideas for different moments of the story?

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2019-06-25T13:58:17Z (almost 5 years ago)
Original score: 3