Making a Cheryl Klein Book Map: Step One

I'm attending Scholastic editor Cheryl Klein's Master Class this coming Saturday, so this week I'm doing homework (I secretly love homework). We have to make a map of our book. I spent too much time yesterday trying to make a chart using Word--but I couldn't get the little boxes big enough, yet small enough with margins large enough, and I know that some scenes are much shorter than others--I needed flexibility. So I went to the office supply store (I secretly love office supply stores) and bought legal sized paper and pens in fun colors.

Here's my blank map:



The categories are: scene#, pages, total number of pages (I combined these into one little box); when the scene occurs; the setting; characters (I assigned my main characters colors and listed them by name); what do they want in this scene; the action in the scene; change that occurs in the scene; revision notes.

I'm going to box my map after I write what is needed for each scene so I won't have to cramp complex scenes or take up too much space for short scenes.

I'll show you how it goes!