ABSTRACT
Collecting information for stories rarely happens linearly. You will likely pull at a thread and continue to pull until you find that what’s unraveled is a completely different story from what you expected. And then you’ll have to pull another thread to figure out more about what you just learned. You might have to pull threads for a while to get what you need—and then you’ll have to sort through what you’ve got. The process is both thrilling and frustrating and the point of this small chapter is to give you a basic framework for making progress, checking that progress and developing your story.
