Thanks, I'm glad you like it! I've already converted Yeti to the Wonder of the Plotsheet - she used one on Aquarium to keep track of everything - so I'm very happy to have another convert, even on a trial basis. :)
Yes, that's exactly the process with the Threes. As I think of things that should be Threed, I add on columns for them and note down the places where they're Threeing. Sometimes even minor Threes then sprout lives of their own and develop extra dimensions of other Threes, which in a story this big, I won't always give an entirely separate column. eg. one columns that's already been Threed here looks like a five, because there's three of one thing and three of another, but the third mention of each is shared as the major revelation scene. There's also columns for things that were always going to be more pervasive than a simple three - major supporting characters, for example, who are better considered as a whole even if they're always going to have more than three appearances/facets/significances to the story.
In general, the more crucial the plot thread, the closer to the left it'll be and the more separate threes it'll have contained in it - but if it sprouts too many threes to see at a glance, or an internal set develops a particularly close affinity with another thread as well, I'll separate it out into another column next to it.
And yeah, it's a totally controlled way of writing. It's partly because my brain isn't big enough to hold the whole story at once without being paralysed by too many possibilities, so I slice it into small enough pieces to be able to work with each part as a separate whole. But since I also do up tables for drabbles, I'm thinking it's mostly my inner control freak expressing herself. :)
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Yes, that's exactly the process with the Threes. As I think of things that should be Threed, I add on columns for them and note down the places where they're Threeing. Sometimes even minor Threes then sprout lives of their own and develop extra dimensions of other Threes, which in a story this big, I won't always give an entirely separate column. eg. one columns that's already been Threed here looks like a five, because there's three of one thing and three of another, but the third mention of each is shared as the major revelation scene. There's also columns for things that were always going to be more pervasive than a simple three - major supporting characters, for example, who are better considered as a whole even if they're always going to have more than three appearances/facets/significances to the story.
In general, the more crucial the plot thread, the closer to the left it'll be and the more separate threes it'll have contained in it - but if it sprouts too many threes to see at a glance, or an internal set develops a particularly close affinity with another thread as well, I'll separate it out into another column next to it.
And yeah, it's a totally controlled way of writing. It's partly because my brain isn't big enough to hold the whole story at once without being paralysed by too many possibilities, so I slice it into small enough pieces to be able to work with each part as a separate whole. But since I also do up tables for drabbles, I'm thinking it's mostly my inner control freak expressing herself. :)
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