Do you use outlines, do you use notecards, do you keep a notebook, a timeline, a chronology, a map, a blue print, a ledger, an excel spreadsheet? How do you keep it all in your head, keep track, the passage of time, the meting out of information. How, when you walk deep into a forest, do you find your way out? I’m an index card girl. Or was that obvious?
What’s your poison?
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Betsy Lerner 
I use them all and not in any defined order. I start with long hand, pencil and paper. Sometimes a typewriter too. Anything that keeps the words coming. I once typed the entire Metamorphosis when I was afraid to go on my own.
All of the above. Neck deep in the forest at the moment.
It’s a mix of outline/fly by the seat of the pants. And sticky notes that are scattershot on my desk at the moment.
I think I just discovered a potential plot hole, despite myself.
Timeline, sticky notes, and the back of bill envelopes. As far as getting out of the forest, I pop my head out every now and then but it’s never the same place I went in!