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#246. Story Mapping: How to Map Your Novel With Sticky Notes (With Danyel Nicole)
What's in this episode
What if getting stuck on your novel has nothing to do with your story and everything to do with HOW you're seeing it? Story mapping coach Danyel Nicole found that out firsthand. When Danyel's first draft started to feel off, she got up from her desk one night, grabbed butcher paper and sticky notes, and mapped out her entire story on the wall in her hallway. Within an hour, she could finally see what was working—and what wasn't. This discovery changed everything about her novel-writing process. And now she helps other writers do the same. Danyel is a Notes to Novel graduate and founder of Map Your Story Studios, where she helps fiction writers get their stories off the page and onto the wall so they can see the big picture, break through draft paralysis, and write with real momentum. In this episode, she's breaking down exactly how story mapping works, why it gets writers unstuck, and how you can start today with less than $25 worth of supplies. What You'll Learn: [03:00] What story mapping is, and why getting stuck on your novel is almost always a visibility problem, not a story problem. [06:29] What Danyel's wall literally looks like: the color-coded sticky note system she uses t