Now, don't faint. I know it's been  more than a year since I last blogged, but today I find myself wanting to pick the whole thing up again. Not because I'm going to subject you all to my random wanderings, but because I've decided I'd like to pick apart an aspect of my writing process - my plotboard.

I first used this cork board and a few cut-up index cards while writing my second book (see left). Back then, my plotting process was as sophisticated as "write down twenty things that happe...