{"id":41913,"date":"2013-07-05T21:19:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-05T21:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2013\/07\/05\/index-cards\/"},"modified":"2013-07-05T21:19:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-05T21:19:00","slug":"index-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2013\/07\/05\/index-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"Index cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>my new favorite writertoy is index cards. I&rsquo;ve played with them before, but never in quite this capacity. I&rsquo;ve made outlines using half-cards before, so I could mix up events if I needed to&hellip;but now they&rsquo;re straight up necessary.<\/p>\n<p>I&rsquo;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&rsquo;ll see if anyone new gets introduced into book 8. that miiiiight just be too much.) I love that they&rsquo;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.<\/p>\n<p>I was never much of a flash card maker, because by the time I&rsquo;d written them down I had the items memorized. this, though &#8211; this is great fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>my new favorite writertoy is index cards. I&rsquo;ve played with them before, but never in quite this capacity. I&rsquo;ve made outlines using half-cards before, so I could mix up events if I needed to&hellip;but now they&rsquo;re straight up necessary. I&rsquo;m worldbuilding (as always) for an 8-book sci-fi cycle, which means that just a couple of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2013\/07\/05\/index-cards\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Index cards&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11660,11659,6261,3031,11661,939,11],"class_list":["post-41913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-brainstorming","tag-index-cards","tag-outlining","tag-tools","tag-world-building","tag-writerlife","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}