I've been struggling with plotting lately as all my previous work has been done braindump style during Nano frenzies. Now that I'm actually trying to plot out a full story I'm getting stuck on the details. So I've done some web searching and I think I'll be going this route. How to plot a novel this article is by Simon Haynes author of the Hal Spacejock series and creator of the amazing ywriter software. I've been using Freemind for plotting but now I intend to get serious about it. I like the idea of putting all your setting items on one side and plotting on the other. Simon has a sample freemind file on his site that's a nice template for getting started. Grab the file from his plot page. After some plotting is done it should be easier to move into ywriter. In the past I usually have one monolithic file with everything in it which makes revising a pain in the butt. But with the scene based ywriter it's easy to move whole sections around. I intend to write DuskHaven entirely in ywriter so we'll see how that goes as well. I'll report back on it occasionally as I make progress.
Not a lot of other news right now. I cleaned my house this weekend which always helps to clear the mind and I actually remembered to grab my notebook and jot down notes on new story ideas that came to mind. Whether they go anywhere or not who knows but at least I'm starting to write them down which is of course step one.
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