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Yes. But this is the BRC not JLM.

As a writer of fiction, I make fairly elaborate plot outlines, character sketches, timelines, setting descriptions — all driven initially by beats (individual index cards).

I then revise the Hell out of them before I ever begin writing.

Once I jam through a first draft, I let the story marinate and come back to it. If I have done a good job on the outline, the sketches, the timeline, the settings — I can pick up the story and run with it, but I have a better, more detached view of things.

With the Musings, I do the same thing but not as much as the blog posts are not as long as a novel or a novella or a 5-10,000 word short story.

I usually have 3-5 topics waiting to be written of at any given time, but I never start outlining until the same day I write them.

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For strategy for solving math problems, there is the famous, now quite old G. Polya, How to Solve it, 1813,

A perennial bestseller by eminent mathematician G. Polya, How to Solve It will show anyone in any field how to think straight. In lucid and appealing prose, Polya reveals how the mathematical method of demonstrating a proof or finding an unknown can be of help in attacking any problem that can be “reasoned” out―from building a bridge to winning a game of anagrams. Generations of readers have relished Polya’s deft―indeed, brilliant―instructions on stripping away irrelevancies and going straight to the heart of the problem.

with apparently now as at

https://www.amazon.com/How-Solve-Mathematical-Princeton-Science/dp/069116407X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1506195535&sr=8-1&keywords=polya+how+to+solve+it

a new edition with a foreword by John H. Conway.

I looked at Polya while in college, thought it was okay, but don’t believe I ever used anything I learned from it in anything I did solve.

Apparently for a lot of people, how to be creative is a struggle. Polya, helped, likely Conway (a creative guy) helped some more, and BRC has helped some more, specifically for business strategy.

Part of business is understanding, evaluating, reading people. Okay. For an example but, sure, a little off topic, to me somehow the woman on the viewer’s left in

http://media.breitbart.com/media/2017/09/melania-trump-gardening-with-dc-children-white-house-9-22-17-getty-640×480.jpg

looks vulnerable, scary vulnerable. I hope she’s okay. Maybe I’m reading wrong; I hope so.

http://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/facts-stratgy/

Yes, you can.

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