my new favorite writertoy is index cards. I’ve played with them before, but never in quite this capacity. I’ve made outlines using half-cards before, so I could mix up events if I needed to…but now they’re straight up necessary.
I’m worldbuilding (as always) for an 8-book sci-fi cycle, which means that just a couple of weeks into serious planning, I have 21 character cards spanning 7 books. (we’ll see if anyone new gets introduced into book 8. that miiiiight just be too much.) I love that they’re tangible and that I can shuffle them around, lay them side by side at will, and take down spurts of notes as they come to me.
I was never much of a flash card maker, because by the time I’d written them down I had the items memorized. this, though – this is great fun.