Creating a Story Bible with a Happy Planner || Preptober Vlog 

Glad to see you are logging your self-care. Have kids and fostering the creative soul is challenging. It doesn’t get easier, but you do get stronger. Those spiritual muscles strengthen giving yourself a respite is essential to creative spirits.

Ooh lovely! The sticky notes, your handwriting, the pictures framed by the text, so neatly arranged! Well done! Even a map!? 🤩

The toddler bedtime stall is ROUGH 😂 that’s how our nights go too Also your world building is so in depth! I love it

Brilliant post! Your world building is an art unto itself. Inspiring even. You have a refreshing old world methodology. As an old writer and teacher that dreamed of typewriters when I was six years olf, I can appreciate the analog approach.

Yes! I love the use of a happy planner or any ring system like that. MY writing notebook is currently in a smaller ring system (not a full sheet of paper size, but smaller. I forget maybe a6? I always forget the proper names for notebook sizes lol) but I love the flexibility it gives me in regards to moving things around, adding sections, taking sections out, etc. I am excited to see another flip through if you do film one at the end of the month! I love seeing peoples story bibles and writing notebooks, no matter if it is a physical one or a digital one. XD

Really cool and thorough story bible. Nicely done! 👍

I'm impressed!!! It's not easy to do this but it helps a lot later on! 💕

You are doing a paper version of note taking & writing app. I used to do that. Having too many rewrites, add & change & alternate scenes, paper can no longer support it, so I put to computer instead.

Yay! Another writer who uses Happy Planner! If you're new to Happy Planner, here's a tip: you can buy bigger rings called Expander discs. As you fill up your notebook, if you find it's getting too full, you can switch to the larger discs to give yourself more space instead of having to start a second notebook. About paper - I've used even regular lined paper and although it does come out very easily, if you're careful it stays in fine. The un-punched lined paper pads is one of my go-to's as I'm low income. So, you can technically use any grade of paper. :) By the way, have you ever tried World Anvil? Check it out if you haven't. You can build your own online wiki for your world and readers. Happy Preptober and good luck with NaNoWriMo!

Oh look! Something @morgan lee was just talking about on her channel! 👀

I have never heard of a Happy Planner before, but it is quite interesting and for anything I need a more physical format, which is certainly something nice, I might consider it. Currently I mostly use Scrivener. I have tried other things that are more specialized and Scrivener seems to work best for me. Glad you found something that works for you.

I love using Scrivner but I have a Happy Planner too.

your son looks like which parent

I have planner envy…