User blog:JWSchmidt/Phasers on Full

In Star Trek, the crew's hand phasers could be set to "stun" or to "full power". I was just reading about Phase Drafting. I find it useful to have "meta pages" and outlines while creating a novel (example, but I do not think that I have the kind of Type A personality that would allow be to even contemplate mapping out an entire novel with "phasers on full". I recently made such a map for the first part of a Jack Vance novel (see this blog post), and I think that such maps are useful for thinking about a plot, but I'm not sure that I could ever construct a complete phase map for a novel before getting into the writing first. However, as a 2010 "resolution", I'm going to try to make my chapter outlines more systematic. Phase mapping on full!