When I set out to learn about my mother's bridge club, the Jewish octogenarians behind the matching outfits and accessories, I never expected to fall in love with them. This is the story of the ladies, their game, their gen, and the ragged path that led me back to my mother.
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!