Any tips for plotting?

[darkriver19886]

I am normally a panster but realising that isn't working for my current novel and maybe why I haven't been successful in finishing a novel in 11 years (apart from bone idle laziness). To the plotters out there, what method works for you? Is there a website or youtube channel I can watch or look at for ideas?

I really want to write the novel that I am working on but, I need to get it all laid out as I keep getting ideas but, then completely forget.

I went to a workshop with Sophie Hannah, years ago, and we talked about this. She said she wrote one page per chapter - she would just make notes, not attempt to write the actual thing, at this point. She said someone (her sister, I think) would read it and critique it. It meant that once she started, she knew exactly what was going to happen in each chapter so it avoided the dreaded freeze up when you see a blank page.

I also went to a talk by Clare Mackintosh who said she took a roll of wallpaper and drew a kind of graph showing what happened in each chapter and whether it was tense enough, so that if there was a flat line for too long she knew this would reduce suspense and she would need to rethink things.

I think both of these things are a really good idea.