The Anatomy of a Novel (Finch)

So I went through the notes and rough draft materials for my new novel, Finch, today. What lurks behind those leather walls? Let's find out...Imagine--an entire world contained in such a narrow space...Assembled: notecards with individual fragments of dialogue, phrases, ideas; more formalized bullet point character and story notes already typed up; partial rough draft scenes housed in notebooks; additional notes on the inside of a folder; and the thick, black cover of the moleskin tome in which I tend to do more rapacious and complete rough drafts.I like to scrawl on the insides of folders, like the contrast of black ink with green, for example. Whenever whatever I'm writing on is covered in text, inside and out, I feel immersed in the novel. Interestingly, that top notecard was originally meant for another novel entirely, but has become repurposed. "Ethan Bliss" is the name of a fellow player on my high school soccer team. I've wanted to use the name for years.On the left, you see an actual typed draft of the first few pages, which may be old now (still checking it over), and then two different yet complementary styles of notebook--the rich, swirled black velvet of an oversized one that gives me enough room to write in my left-handedness, and then to the far right torn out pages from an illustrator's pad. I like paper that's meant for art sometimes, especially if it means a very long page with the binding horizontal rather than vertical.Sometimes there are tangential benefits to re-starting a novel. Here, I found my old wallet, for example...And, oh my god, it's a map of Ambergris! Something I probably won't adhere to or use. I used it initially for positioning purposes, for the context of an Ambergris several hundred years after the last time period I wrote about.So that's the current anatomy of my novel, Finch. About 20,000 words of really excellent third draft, about 10,000 words of incomplete rough drafts, about 200 notecards, and another 20 to 40 torn-out pages, along with 40 pages of bullet point typed up notes and observations. Eventually, it will be a sharp-looking trade paperback with a Ben Templesmith cover. Right now, though, it's in somewhat less holistic form...