STORYSPACE: Neatness Counts
I do love working in the Map View format, though I still would like to be able to telescope children out of the parental boxes so that one can work in the entire piece AND be able to use the Chart View and Outline View as well. Right now, after I spent hours setting up the Chart View and found I couldn’t use the Map View because of the hierarchy, I reset up the Map as the main workplace and use Chart only if I’ve lost a kid somewhere’s in the mall.
As I’ve been cutting the ties between the stories where I’d formerly had them linked (such as based on the word ‘morning’ and connecting from Story 1 to Story 4), and removing the guard fields, I still haven’t quite the nerve to rearrange the map to accurately reflect the changed flow of story.
Maybe tomorrow I’ll get braver.
The Lost Children: A Charity Anthology