Juggling many characters

[Hypoxia]

Tangentially, I juggle many characters in a multi-chapter storyline by shuffling then out of the picture when unneeded. An 18-part series (that could have been endless) bounces between Incest and Group. If a chapter is in Group, relatives are busy elsewhere, and if in Incest, then all non-kin are off-page. Only each episode's different narrator needs to know who is whom there.

A story may start from scattered ideas, not quite an outline, just notes. I may bundle that text with a rough character sheet in a separate file or merely as an unposted block below the submission. But nothing more elaborate than that.

 

[SolarRay]

Tangentially, I juggle many characters in a multi-chapter storyline by shuffling then out of the picture when unneeded. An 18-part series (that could have been endless) bounces between Incest and Group. If a chapter is in Group, relatives are busy elsewhere, and if in Incest, then all non-kin are off-page. Only each episode's different narrator needs to know who is whom there.

A story may start from scattered ideas, not quite an outline, just notes. I may bundle that text with a rough character sheet in a separate file or merely as an unposted block below the submission. But nothing more elaborate than that.

Yeah that seems like a good tactic. I ended up doing something like that with one of my multi-chapter stories that centered around three characters. The chapters were decisively episodic with characters A, B, and C, being involved in those various episodes in assorted combinations. Along the way, their relationships with each other evolved, as did their influence on the various secondary characters around them.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Tangentially, I juggle many characters in a multi-chapter storyline by shuffling then out of the picture when unneeded. An 18-part series (that could have been endless) bounces between Incest and Group. If a chapter is in Group, relatives are busy elsewhere, and if in Incest, then all non-kin are off-page. Only each episode's different narrator needs to know who is whom there.

A story may start from scattered ideas, not quite an outline, just notes. I may bundle that text with a rough character sheet in a separate file or merely as an unposted block below the submission. But nothing more elaborate than that.

Not all my characters are on the page at the same time. They also don't talk all at the same time as both my really long character sheets are characters from the military and most don't talk unless spoken to.