When fourteen year old Katya was writing her first fanfictions, she had a huge three ring binder full of charts and diagrams to keep her stories straight. Thankfully life got a lot easier when I picked up writing fiction again as an adult. (Non-fiction’s a little easier to keep straight, bullet journal always did the trick.)

Before I started writing Hurricane Ryan, I was working on a paranormal romance trilogy, but I was struggling. Then I got the idea for Hurricane Ryan and that story fell by the wayside. Determined to do better on my second go around, I decided to give outlining a try and got a free download for Plottr. I wound up outlining all FOUR books in less than a week, and while I haven’t gotten back to the paranormal romance yet, I’ve got the outlines sitting ready to go for after I finish the Sea Side Cove series. (Currently planned at three books, I’m working on book two right now!)

I knew without a doubt I was keeping Plottr, and I got invited to a beta run on Plottr Pro and I jumped on it. Everything I loved about it already and now it would sync to my cell phone so I could make notes whenever they occurred to me: on a run or at the dog park. Sold!

I absolutely love this software. It lets me build a character bible that I can link to multiple books, detailed outlines in two different views, locations, notes, you name it, this software has a place for it. It’s fantastic and I cannot say enough good things about it.