Storybook - Open Source Novel Writing Software
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FS#21 - Add begin- and end-time (and date) to a scene
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Opened by Hendryk (hQuadrat) - Wednesday, 09 November 2011, 17:39 GMT+2
Last edited by Intertec (Intertec) - Wednesday, 09 May 2012, 14:32 GMT+2
Opened by Hendryk (hQuadrat) - Wednesday, 09 November 2011, 17:39 GMT+2
Last edited by Intertec (Intertec) - Wednesday, 09 May 2012, 14:32 GMT+2
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DetailsI wish you could add for each scene planned a “timeframe” in which the scene is planned to happen. Currently I can only assign a date, without any begin- or end-time of the event described in a scene. If I have more scenes that overlap in time (as they might be described from different characters, which I can plan as a separate “strand” of the story), small time differences might be very useful to plan ahead.
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That would be a great feature, if you could implement that... and if that also will be seen graphically in the frontend. |
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I'd also ask for something like "overnight" - without the need to choose specific time.
Or make the time in the scene begins/ends not mandatory.
Of course, any of the suggested additional fields should be not mandatory! But they should help to see at a glance at what time on a specific date things happen (by scene). And if there are several scenes on the same day (possibly concerning different strands), how they overlap or in what order they actually happen (even if the order in the final chapter/scene arrangement might differ from their chronological order!).
In the same run, it would be possible to create scenes that happen "overnight", touching two days - or scenes that endure several days! Also it would be possible to capture a timeframe for *past events* (either roughly by date or very exact by date and time) that happened before the story of the book begins. For example I write in my story about the father of a character that just died. The illness that caused the father's death had several phases (e.g. 13.02.2003, 13:20 [Time of infection with a virus] to 12.03.2003 = Phase 1, 13.03 to 04.08.2003 = Phase 2, etc.). If those past events become important in the story, I could create a "scene" that just summarizes it for later reference.
Maybe, there is another possibility to depict past events already? (Thanks for a comment if you have a solution!) Or it might be another feature request to separate "Events" beside the actual story from the scenes I enter within "Storybook".
However, my point in this feature request was to make scenes more flexible and precise by adding their start- and end-date and time, which would offer a lot of new ways to work with Storybook!