i just saw this im sorry Honestly when it came to Auctioned Off, it was just everything off the top of my head/imagination which is why it was so messy and not really connected. With another story I was working on and is currently unpublished, I have a note on my phone that has characters, their age, their birthday, parents names, etc and then like “Start of story year: xxxx. Chapter one year: xxxx” and stuff like that just to keep track. When it comes down to pricing things in the story, i tend to google similar things. an example is the price range of a phone if a character is buying one!