This image is from "Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows" and it is the spider web, mind map or crazy wall that Sherlock was using to track Moriarty. Each string is tied to a point, that connects to another point and so on and so on. As you can see from the image above it's quite chaotic and messy. That's what being inside my creative mind is like.
A.K.A. very crazy and chaotic and it's a surprise I ever know here I am going or how one thing really leads to the others. Most of the time, an idea will pop into my head before I can finish another.
As you can guess, this is not very helpful when I am trying to come up with a story. Like the last this ties a bit into scheduling. But this post, is more about organization.
I would be all over the place if my idea and planning for a story looked like the picture above. So for one of my current projects, a novel I have been working. I have been trying a slightly different tactic. Instead of trying to figure out to much all at once and separately, leaving me to figure out how they are all connected, I have been implementing a story board system instead. Something like this:
This is clearly from Disney's "Alice in Wonderland" and is the scene were Alice comes across the Hookah smoking Caterpillar. Moving from top to bottom, left to right, we see step by step how the scene is going to progress.
My story board is somewhat similar. Only instead of pictures, I have words on note cards, tact to a bulletin board. Each note card has a key point in the story that needs to happen. And I can move them around and connect them in different patterns to see how they work.
This has been a great help in helping me organize my thoughts and try different combinations. And it saves me a bit of wall space and I don't have to by red string.
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