Hello My Fellow Writers.

Hello my fellow writers.

Most people have heard of Evernote by now, but a lot of people (myself included) thought/think that it’s purely for business or shopping lists and what not.

I’m here to tell you that it’s not just for business. It can be a valuable tool for plotting and organizing your novel!

I’ve blurred out all the super pertinent details for my current project as well as my email address, but here’s how I set it all up.

1. Download Evernote. There are paid versions, but for what we’ll be doing, the free version works just as well. You have to make an account, because everything is in cloud storage, unless you make a local notebook.

2. Set everything up and make your first notebook. Title it however you want.

3. Make Notes in the Notebook. Obviously, you can do this however you want, but here are some note blocks to get you started;

-Plot: Here’s where you’ll put your premise, summary or outline

-Setting: Here’s where you’ll describe your setting. I found a cool thing when I was searching for Evernote templates that has key questions to answer about setting. Find it HERE. (If you have an evernote account, you can add it straight to your notebook!)

-Misc Ideas/Notes: This is just a place to jot down things you may think of that may not fit into any category or are incomplete. (I have lists of names and potential titles in mine)

-Characters: This is to hash out your characters!

-Snippets: I don’t always write in the right order or I’ll think of something a character might say or do, or a particularly awesome description I don’t need quite yet and I can add it here.

-Character Profiles: This was something I added because I found a really nice 100 question survey thing for characterization and I didn’t want to clog up my character page for this. I only did this for my four main characters, but as far as I know, there are no limits to how many notes you can have in a notebook.

I hope this helps someone out! I’m really excited about this because I’ve been having trouble getting my ideas sorted out in my head and this has really, really made things easier to see and think about!

Back to work!

-Amanda

P.S. It occurred to me that this could seem sponsored and I assure you that Evernote is not paying me to promote them, though if they did, I wouldn’t say no because money is nice. However, I’m nowhere near popular enough for that, so you guys probably have nothing to worry about! Happy writing!

Soulmate AU where Enjolras has “sorry I don’t mean to startle you but there’s a spider on your hair” tattooed on his arm and Grantaire has just the capitalized letter A repeating and twisting all over his body (like a scream), from the top of his shoulder to the bottom of his foot and the both of them are very apprehensive about finding their soulmate

yeah but

ghosts who are friends with the living

ghosts curiously listening to their fleshy friend’s heartbeat

ghosts snuggling up to their living friends to feel their body heat

ghosts basking in the sun to warm their ecto-bodies up so they won’t be so cold to the touch

ghosts huddling close to their living friends in windy weather for fear of getting blown apart

ghosts watching horror movies with their living friends and worriedly turning to them and going like “i’m not that bad am i?” pointing at the murderous stringy-haired banshee onscreen

people ouija-ing their ghost friends as if they were casual phone calls all like “hey you wanna hang out soon”

ghosts going to museums with their living friends and shaking their heads while looking at the exhibits all like “no no no this is all wrong. i was there and it went nothing like this.”

ghosts getting really giddy and excited whenever they hear music from their era

Rivalry to Romance AUs

We hate each other but we both have a mutual friend so we have to put up with each other AU

This is a mandatory partner project and since everybody else is taken I have to have you as my partner AU

You’re my jerk barista who purposely screws up my name when I order my caffeine fix AU

The Proposal AU

You used to bully/mess with me in elementary school and it turned out it was because you had a major crush on me AU

I’m trying to recruit members for my club but you keep stealing away all my potential recruits AU

You spoil all the things I’m into and it’s really pissing me off AU

So I have to spend the night at my longtime rival’s house, everything will totally be fine because their parents are there (or not) AU

If you aren’t serious about this play then leave AU

I know you don’t like me but I really need help passing this class AU

Don’t tell anyone you saw me crying AU

I don’t want to go to this party/dance alone so please be my date AU

Just got caught under the mistletoe with my arch-nemesis and now everything is slow changing between us AU

You come to the restaurant I work at and choose me as your waiter(ess) every time just to annoy me and I can’t do anything in retribution or I’ll get fired AU

I spilled my lunch on this person one time and now they hate me AU

A Walk to Remember AU

You’re the Gantu to my Stitch AU

can someone explain the alignment chart for me but in like, the simplest wording possible lmao

alright but why does no one write colorblind character AUs??? 

(note: i am not colorblind, a friend of mine who is was just telling me about some of the shit that’s happened to him)

you accidentally took my bag instead of yours and i don’t know your name so i yelled “YOU IN THE YELLOW SHIRT” but you didn’t respond so i yelled “HEY ASSHOLE” when i finally caught up with you… and apparently your shirt is red??

we’re doing a lab in chemistry with the “flame test” where you set an element on fire and we’re supposed to record what color the flame is, but i have no fucking clue what color it’s supposed to be so i’m copying your answers and now you think i’m trying to cheat

i thought this tomato was ripe but it’s actually green and you saw me take a bite out of it and whispered “hardcore”

if you ask me “what color is this” one more time i’m going to punch you out don’t think i won’t

did you know i can’t be a police officer in certain states??? like what the fuck i will fight the system and become a police officer goddamn it, my partner can record that the perp’s shirt was fucking purple

you’re too polite to tell me that the colors of my outfit clash horribly but the jokes on you because i actually know what colors they’re supposed to be (because there’s an app for that!) and i just like making your eyes bleed