>>54522368Keep It Simple Stupid
If there's so much going on your story that you're having trouble keeping track of it, what makes you think your audience is going to be able to follow it at all? Your story should contain everything that needs to be there and not one single god damn thing more.
>But I also wanted to include a thing where-Make it a spin-off or a sequel.
>But in the background there's a lot of things going on with-If it's important to the story, it shouldn't be in the background, it should be the focus. If important shit is going on and we're following something else instead, what the fuck is that second thing even doing there? Make the story about the important thing.
>But I have trouble keeping track of everythingThen you've picked too many things to be "important." Cut out half of them. If this cripples your story or makes your character not make sense, then you cut out the wrong half. If you think every little facet is equally important, then I'm sorry but you're probably mistaken. J.R.R. Tolkein wrote an entire fucking bible's worth of backstory for individual objects and locations, not to mention all the people and bloodlines, and he knew full well that 90% of it was irrelevant to the story of LOTR so he didn't put it in the books, he just left it sitting in his notes for funsies. You should do the same.
And remember,
"It don't matter. None of this matters."