Plotboarding - how I got started

Okay, I promised some blogs about my plotboard.  Now, I can't claim to have invented the idea – far from it – but I've been tweaking my own approach to using index cards and pins to help me visualise my book for about six years now.

I'm quite a visual thinker and it helps me to 'see' the structure of my book this way.  It also provides a place to put all those 'lightning bolt' ideas I get about my book before, during and after the first draft.  You  know the kind of ideas I mean: the ones you ...