Outlines and cards. Hmm... I've always have a terrible time with outlines. I'll carefully write one out, and then when I sit down to write the draft, it never turns out the way I had planned in the outline. Sometimes I just throw the outline over my shoulder and just "wing it" for it's too frustrating to try to force the scenes to work based on my little outline ~ for the writing becomes flat and uninteresting. I think we discuccsed outlines before ~ a few months back. Haha, I wonder if I can locate it in my LJ entries? Or maybe it was an LL convo. Either way, I still find your outline method fascinating. It just seems so organized to me. In the sense you know where you need to go, and ways to get there.

I too have to know my characters well ~ I like to write prompts about who they are, and I often write scenes that probably won't appear in my draft to learn more about their intracacies. I then have to have that set in my mind, and of course, the character may change as the story goes along, but then we all change as we experience new things ~ whether for ill or good. It's a bit of an adventure in a way.

I like the card idea. Don't know if it'd work at orginizing me... but it might work for character development ~ haha, one of my favorite hobbies in fact. ^_^

And I've never seen Vendetta. A must see, I take it?