Guest Blogger Alicia Butcher Ehrhardt shares her secrets for keeping track of plots, characters and their shenanigans. Hi! Marlene asked me to write about the weird way I write – and I will, with one caveat: don’t try this at home. In fact, don’t try any of this at all unless you already know you’re an extreme plotter (as opposed to a pantser), and need to 1) have tight control over what happens in your novel, and 2) have a method that you are comfortable with to keep track of all that plot stuff. If you are a true pantser – following your instincts alone – I think the following will strike you as insane. I do this because my CFS-addled brain makes it very difficult for me to keep everything in my head – more about that in a minute. I gave up Word for managing a writing project because…