ROCK!
I bought the big ones (5x8) about...uhhhh, a month ago, I think. I know the standard is the small ones but, I like to be prepared for when I screw up a line and need the extra space to re-write.
After my epiphany I started re-evaluating the conflicts. Broke everything down then regrouped. When I started burning through notepads to do scene summaries my gerbils went, "Hey, you have index cards."
Yea. They're helpful that way.
So today at work, because again it was slow, I had my big index cards and I started my scene summaries.
Let me tell you...It was great to see my story unfold. I was able to do what the index cards were meant for. Organize, shuffle, re-organize, find holes, fill holes with something doable until you can flesh out how it fits, and even write on a few cards with chapter titles but leave them blank then shuffle again. It was so much fun that the 50 out of the 100 that I took, I used them all and was sad when I didn't have any more. I know I'm going to need more and lucky me when I get up Tuesday morning the husband is making me get out of the house for "exercise" and we will be passing an office supply store.....Yay!
Now I just have to weed through all the notes and get everything lined up for the whole manuscript.
See, there they go again.........the gerbils are giggling.
I bought the big ones (5x8) about...uhhhh, a month ago, I think. I know the standard is the small ones but, I like to be prepared for when I screw up a line and need the extra space to re-write.
After my epiphany I started re-evaluating the conflicts. Broke everything down then regrouped. When I started burning through notepads to do scene summaries my gerbils went, "Hey, you have index cards."
Yea. They're helpful that way.
So today at work, because again it was slow, I had my big index cards and I started my scene summaries.
Let me tell you...It was great to see my story unfold. I was able to do what the index cards were meant for. Organize, shuffle, re-organize, find holes, fill holes with something doable until you can flesh out how it fits, and even write on a few cards with chapter titles but leave them blank then shuffle again. It was so much fun that the 50 out of the 100 that I took, I used them all and was sad when I didn't have any more. I know I'm going to need more and lucky me when I get up Tuesday morning the husband is making me get out of the house for "exercise" and we will be passing an office supply store.....Yay!
Now I just have to weed through all the notes and get everything lined up for the whole manuscript.
See, there they go again.........the gerbils are giggling.