The photograph shows the current state of my work in progress novel. Yes, it is in bits! I'd got rather bogged down in it and decided to try a new approach. The bits of paper represent each scene in the book and give me a key to where it is located on my computer. The colours represent the character or combination of characters in the scene.
Now I just need to put it all back together again.
Wish me luck and watch this space....
I would so love to use a process like this to order my scattered mind. I'm rubbish at planning - more on this please Morton and how it's working for you! I know Julie Cohen does something similar, I think she does it with post-its and puts them on the back of a door!
ReplyDeleteI hope it's successful Morton. I know that bogged down and totally lost feeling! I had my scenes written out on old-fashioned index cards and marked with a different coloured high-lighter pen depending on who's POV the scene was. Not a dissimilar approach to your coloured paper.
ReplyDeleteI cut them all out and then life has taken over for a few days, so I haven't rearranged them. Curiously though, a new approach to the first chapter arrived and I've written that up, so progress has happened but not in the way I imagined!
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