I’m not writing my novel in a linear way; instead, I’m jumping around and writing scenes in no particular order and many of the scenes are incomplete or have gaps in them that I’ll need to fill in later when I have more of the story worked out.
It was driving me crazy trying to keep track of which scenes were complete and which weren’t but I finally figured out a quick trick to take care of it.
When I start working on a new scene, I name the scene with a plus sign (+) at the front of the name. Then when I know I have the scene completely written with no gaps that need more work, I rename the scene to delete the +. This way I can quickly look down the list of scenes in the Manuscript list and the plus sign tells me exactly which scenes still need more work.
Sticky notes are good. Also go old fashion If you do not have a wall use numbered flash cards with needed info and set them up like a deck of cards. Move shuffle until you get it where you want it.
I do something similar (confession: I got this from Scrivener which allows you to tag scenes with metadata: first draft, second draft, etc). In Dabble, I preface the scenes with 0, 1, or 2. 0 = to be written, 1= first rough, 2 = edited, ready for final polish.
Oooh, I like the + method - I tried using emojis to show status but gave up as it was too much faff adding them in to each chapter. This is much more doable.
I do something similar (confession: I got this from Scrivener which allows you to tag scenes with metadata: first draft, second draft, etc). In Dabble, I preface the scenes with 0, 1, or 2. 0 = to be written, 1= first rough, 2 = edited, ready for final polish.
