I didn't have a bulletin board big enough for all of these scenes, so my husband and I debated whether the cards should go on the fridge on on the guest bathroom shower door. Although it could be argued that the "reading room" would have been the perfect place for a developing novel, the magnetic properties of the fridge won out.

So here it is in living color, White Line to Graceville. Each color card represents a different narrator. Pink is Diana Rose, yellow is her husband Jerry, and orange is that good-looking young thing, Bradley. Using the different colored cards makes it so easy to check and see if each character is getting the appropriate frequency in the book.

I used the cards to indicate a brief scene description and also to make note of certain themes or devices which are shown in that scene.

The four white cards mark the four sections of the book.

The cards have a magnet stuck to the back for easy and frequent scene repositioning.

This method was immeasurably helpful. It also proves that Darnell Arnoult is always right. It was Darnell who told me I could finish the book in a three-day weekend if only I could get those three days, and she was pretty much right about that, too.

Another wonderful thing about this is that my kids are interested in it. "Cool," they said when they walked in the house after I had first put all the cards up. And I don't think they intended the pun.