Need Organization Guidance: Order out of Chaos

Right. Absolutely right.
I’ve edited it in my previous post. As this is too important to leave it out.

Perhaps I should add, to clarify a point : what I meant by “fear of breaking something” was actually that maybe some of your files are where they are in the binder for a reason. In the sense that perhaps, beyond the text they contain, that too, says/means something, in a passive way. If you dive right in and move files around, that passive content, should it be the case, will inevitably be lost.
Say you add a new document each time you have a new idea or thought, although the idea or thought might relatively be a “standalone”, the sequence of files might hold the causal relationship part.

@endgame These are all very good suggestions from people who obviously understand organization. I wish I had done it that way.

I can’t add anything clever to that. So I’ll just say this: don’t wait to start writing until you’ve figured out your organizational structure. Do both at the same time. You have ideas and you have memories of what you’ve written. So just start writing. As you become more organized, you’ll find material to insert (add) into the text you’ve already written.

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I would use the organization to develop a story/ character arc/ list of scenes and bookmark appropriate file to each scene.