The idea of a dedicated table upon which to build landscapes and settings appeals to me. A lot. One could spend several lifetimes vacuuming _that_ cat. (And I know at least one Fantasy Writer who has wargamed campaigns for their books.)

I think I shall stick to either diagrams or my computer. Either way, it means I need to fix my world in much greater detail which is probably the scariest part of it.

Storyboarding is more likely to help visual writers, I think – see it work as a film – whereas this kind of thing – move figures around in space – appeals to me.

Of course, one could vaccuum the cat properly by first casting and painting one’s miniature figures…

I knew you’d come up with something extraordinarily useful.

The reminder that, in order to navigate the territory, I need to map the territory first is a timely one. (The fact that the map is a temporal one is neither here nor there.)

The other is your mentioning of ‘football plays diagrams’ because that seems to be the level of detail I need. I wasn’t familiar with them, but they’re exactly what I needed.

Thank you!

Oh, and “Pirates of the Caribbean” *has* to be playing in the background. It’s a law… or something.