aww tysm!! man you are asking the wrong person but what i’m doing for alvin’s infurno is having a rough outline of each character’s arc and story along with their motivations. that way its loose enough to change around as i get new ideas but not so loose that i run out of steam and have no idea where to go.
write a one sentence summary of your story/character/arc
expand that sentence into a paragraph
expand that paragraph into three paragraphs, summarising the whole thing, beginning and end
boom. thats your outline for your story.
and for characters specificially i’ve been using this template
one sentence of summary of the character’s story
what the character ultimately wants
what the character ultimately needs
what’s preventing them from getting what they want and need
what they ultimately learn and how they change
and you can use that first method for every scene if you want. think about what you’re accomplishing with each scene and what the ‘arc’ is for each one. is there an argument? what are we establishing? etc etc
hope this was coherent lol!!