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what i've been doing II Those of you who have looked at this blog more than a couple of times know that I'm fond of complicated organizational schemes, so it won't surprise you to learn that this new piece of fiction I'm working on (outlined a bit in Thursday's post) deals with dozens of characters, multiple parallel narratives, flashbacks within flashbacks, that sort of thing. You also probably won't be surprised, given my weak spot for information visualization, to find out that I've started mapping out the book-in-progress in an Excel spreadsheet to keep track of its convolutions as I write. Here's a screenshot of the first six chapters, with characters A-G showing: This spreadsheet owes a debt to the geek-information-art of Danielle Aubert, particularly her inspirational 58 Days of Drawing Exercises in Microsoft Excel.
Sunday, May 21, 2006
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