Do you keep your projects as one gigantic document or in chapters?

[Naruzeldamaster]

Me personally I like being able to scroll quickly through each individual chapter, so each project gets it's own 'folder' in the main writing folder and then each chapter is it's own document. This way when I want to have two chapters open at once to scroll through I can do so and make changes as needed. Makes it nice and easy to add stuff and edit things.

An Odd quirk is that my longest documents tend to hover between 25-40 kb, like, that's just naturally where my chapters fall. When I try to make them shorter, it feels weird, when I try to make em longer, it feels awkward too.

 

[pmmg]

I dont really have chapters, but I do have a lot of scenes. In the master word document, its all one giant story, and word remembers my place for me. Sometimes I have to search, but mostly, I know where stuff is.

In Scrivener, I have it all separated by part and scene, and labelled them according to POV character. I seldom use scrivener. Its more for notes, and front and back matter for me.

 

[Aldarion]

I keep it in chapters, each chapter an individual document.

 

[ThinkerX]

That depends on the length of the story. Up to about 30-40K, it is all one file. In some cases, I will fold the notes into the header material.

Longer stories get one file for each chapter, plus two additional files: one for notes, the other titled 'work,' where I keep fragments that don't quite fit but might prove useful. These files get assembled into 1-4 much larger files during the rewrite.

 

[Prince of Spires]

I'm an all-in-1 kind of guy.

Yes, I like to live dangerously...

 

[xena]

I keep everything in one document, but I make an index at the top with hyperlinks to each chapter.