📚Long-form ProjectsLesson 1 of 5

Project Organization

10 min

expert

Long-form writing projects need infrastructure. Without good organization, you'll waste hours searching for information, lose track of details, and make continuity errors. Here's how to organize projects for AI collaboration.

Key Concepts

1
Separate documents: outline, characters, worldbuilding, timeline
2
Make each document AI-readable (clear, structured)
3
Version your important documents
4
Create a 'story bible' that's always current
5
Name files consistently for easy AI reference

Examples

Prompt / Technique

Project folder structure:
/Novel
  /Bible
    - Characters.md
    - World.md
    - Timeline.md
  /Outline
    - Master-outline.md
    - Chapter-outlines/
  /Drafts
    - Chapter-01.md
    - Chapter-02.md

Result / Insight

Clear organization makes AI assistance more effective