More on Robert Caro's research & writing methods

Posted by washere
Apr 24, 2019 at 12:16 AM

Curved biggish monitors can be found for cheaper than most think. 27”, then 31 or 31.5 or 32 then 40/41/42”. Prices dropping all the time.

As for walls of index cards or m3notes vs big monitors arguments here, both have their uses, separately or in conjunction, like books & ebooks. I know someone who put two hinged doors on a cork board, getting double the space or even triple considering. You don’t need walls to sacrifice for bigger space either:

https://www.google.com/search?q=portable+room+dividers&tbm=isch

As for the actual topic of OP, there are many book planning methodologies, can recall a dozen, and also many books on them. Fiction and non, outlining being only one, as usual they’re rarely mentioned here. Probably because any such interesting topic quickly goes off-topic if ever brought up, not that I recall offhand any. Each method has its prophets.

Most super gifted old school writers though just had some notes and their brain functioned as supercomputers or better yet super minds. That was before word processors. When it works like that, the results are magical, better than any meticulous planning or walls of notes or apps. You just get in the zone and everything magically interconnects in time. Almost mystical process within the neural nets and beyond, takes hold. Maybe that’s why the really great works are all older.