Anyway, personally I kind of feel that for ME to be a good author, I need to take notes. And if I were to do a litrpg... My God I'd need folders of folders of shit. Keeping track of characters is very important for an author, and if you get several chapters in, and somehow have like ten or more active characters it becomes more dialogue than action, and that can help if nothing is going on, but you also need to make sure to not get people confused, but also need to remember to interrupt with action as and when necessary.

With how it relates to the last chapter, I feel like setting up the world is important. To have a decent framework means you can reference your own material and set up how it's supposed to go. Granted sometimes when you make a character, and you want them to make a certain choice... It doesn't happen. You wrote the character and their personality clashes so hard with the option in front that before you know it you're wrote them being true to themselves, even if it's not the optimum solution you may think it could have been. It's strange when it happens, and not everyone who has wrote something will know what I'm talking about. But there may come a point when you start to hmmmmm and hawwww because that's not what they would do and you know it.