"Hey, I refer to this event several times, but I don't think I've defined it. *scribble*" "Hmmm, I think I see a theme in the way this thing and this other thing correspond. Shall I make it explicit?" "I know I wrote about the hero's relationship to the prophecy, but I need the details. *quickly find three cards in 300*"
Putting all the stuff on index cards is a way to get it out of your head so you can stop thinking about the details and see it from a higher level without worrying about forgetting stuff. And this is a way to quickly find a particular card, or set of cards, in the stack...
Of course, just dealing a random hand of cards from the deck and free-associating about their relationships can be valuable, too. I found a whole subtheme by just noticing some correspondences in what was on top of the big sprawl of cards when I initially wrote a bunch of it down.
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Date: 2006-09-01 04:03 am (UTC)"Hey, I refer to this event several times, but I don't think I've defined it. *scribble*"
"Hmmm, I think I see a theme in the way this thing and this other thing correspond. Shall I make it explicit?"
"I know I wrote about the hero's relationship to the prophecy, but I need the details. *quickly find three cards in 300*"
Putting all the stuff on index cards is a way to get it out of your head so you can stop thinking about the details and see it from a higher level without worrying about forgetting stuff. And this is a way to quickly find a particular card, or set of cards, in the stack...
Of course, just dealing a random hand of cards from the deck and free-associating about their relationships can be valuable, too. I found a whole subtheme by just noticing some correspondences in what was on top of the big sprawl of cards when I initially wrote a bunch of it down.