So with my fiction writing I had a constant question--how much had I gotten done? And in what ratio?

Two scripts in the last 24 hours were useful: one, that just says what sections in my text file are how big, and two, that says how much of the sections have ideas organized.

My chapters generally are organized like so:

Billy went to the beach. He found a dollar in the sand. Bully Bobby said "Hey! That's my dollar!"

??

Billy spent the dollar on a Flakey Jake and a can of A&W Root Beer.

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B asks BB if know serial number
Is BB trying to impress girls?
B has friends at beach?

So the % done is the stuff above the equals. The ?? means something needs to be connected. All this gets recorded, and I see the chapter is 50% organized. I can also record for subchapters or groups of chapters.

It's been very useful to me as I tend to say "are we there yet" to myself about, well, anything, and now with writing I have an answer where I don't need to go in detail. I've already had fun tweaking it.

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	bluberry - January 13, 2010 (07:16 PM) good god i need help, the first thing i thought when i saw "connected" was that your story is a metric space. what're you writing about, anyway?
	aschultz - January 14, 2010 (10:02 AM) Well, at least you didn't think of metric spaces AND graph theory. The book is dystopian dark humor (No, really. My writing can be screamingly funny. I just don't think games/game reviews show it best.) The material's potentially sensitive and would be a great excuse for a manager to lay me off, so I'm going anonymous for now. I've tried to find books addressing the same issue and can't, so I think it's legitimately original. I put a book featuring a kid who won 3 state high school chess championships in a row on hold for it.