Wow! That’s brilliant & uncanny, I’ve been thinking today how much I love post-its & wouldn’t it be great to use them like cards... I’m doing a stationary shop tonight!
Love the color-coded Post-it Notes--I heard once about a woman who worked with three spools of ribbon by her desk, one color for each major thread of her novel. Whenever a chapter touched on one of these threads, she advanced the corresponding ribbon by an inch or two, and this gave her an intuitive sense of which thread she needed to "weave in" next. In the current revision of my WIP, which has a lot of heavy lifting to do in terms of backstory and exposition, I've been experimenting with using different-colored highlighters on the sections that advance each thread in this regard--the idea being that I should easily be able to go back and see what each of them adds up to, in terms of a picture in the reader's mind. We'll see!
I love the idea of the ribbon! (I’ll bet she doesn’t have cats or toddlers!) I, too, did the different-colored highlighter thing in one of my drafts of Faultland. Color seems to reach our brains via emotion more than intellect. Good luck with your revision!
Wow! That’s brilliant & uncanny, I’ve been thinking today how much I love post-its & wouldn’t it be great to use them like cards... I’m doing a stationary shop tonight!
Kismet!
Love the color-coded Post-it Notes--I heard once about a woman who worked with three spools of ribbon by her desk, one color for each major thread of her novel. Whenever a chapter touched on one of these threads, she advanced the corresponding ribbon by an inch or two, and this gave her an intuitive sense of which thread she needed to "weave in" next. In the current revision of my WIP, which has a lot of heavy lifting to do in terms of backstory and exposition, I've been experimenting with using different-colored highlighters on the sections that advance each thread in this regard--the idea being that I should easily be able to go back and see what each of them adds up to, in terms of a picture in the reader's mind. We'll see!
I love the idea of the ribbon! (I’ll bet she doesn’t have cats or toddlers!) I, too, did the different-colored highlighter thing in one of my drafts of Faultland. Color seems to reach our brains via emotion more than intellect. Good luck with your revision!