Staying on Track

I’ve been working on my next Mapleton Mystery, and am back to using my story tracking board. I didn’t use it for Jinx’s Blackthorne, Inc. book, mostly because I was lazy. No excuses; I didn’t take down the sticky notes from the previous book, and by the time I thought about it, I was so far into the book, the thought of recapping to that point was too daunting.

(Note-this was definitely a ‘do as I say, not as I do’ situation)

But for Gordon’s book, I cleaned off my board and went back to my tri...