Post-It Notes On the Wall

I’m in the mushy middle of my story, floundering in plotlessness. Well, it feels that way. I considered using my new software gem Scrivener to help (more on Scrivener in another post), but decided I needed to be totally visual and kinesthetic about it. I mean, I needed to move paper bits around. As my office is a shared space, papers on the floor are always in danger, so I pulled down a satellite image of the earth, and decorated the wall with post-it notes.

I don’t have an ideal collection of various colours and sizes (and decided a shopping trip was a distraction, not a necessity). I dug out what I have, and started cutting and labeling and rearranging in a horrific mess. I have the beginning and the end – I just need to settle out the middle.

Half-an-hour after I started, a writer friend posted a link on Facebook to a blog on mushy middles, which got me thinking… and rearranging… and searching for new colours…

And here I sit, facing the wall, bedecked with notes, hoping I have good enough notes that they won’t all be on the ground by morning.

Maureen