User blog comment:KvngDragon/Advice and Question About Boot Orders/@comment-26485526-20180609055334

For my boot orders, I generally just go through the boot order vote-by-vote, and provide rough bullet points as to why each vote happened. I take note simply of who votes for who, and major events that happen in the episodes, and then I move on. I don't plan each vote in extreme detail, because I find that can be boring, and as you said, I can lose motivation a bit. But just sticking to the basic bullet points and the rough details for me makes drafting the boot orders easier.

For tribe switches, I literally plug my characters' names into a site like random.org's list randomizer and go from there. That way, random tribe switches are actually randomized, and I don't have to spend a long time trying to figure out who goes where. If you think the narrative you started means that two castaways need to remain together, then feel free to make the switch, but at least by using some sort of tool to randomize the new tribes, the bulk of the work is being done for you.

Only once the total boot order is complete, and my rough boot order is recorded in Microsoft Excel (their spreadsheets are great for keeping track of your voting history especially), that's when I start filling in gaps and bigger details. But at least with the rough story, I have something there, and if I'm suddenly not feeling part of it, it's easier for me to switch things up a bit instead of having to cut out a major part of the story and re-do a huge chunk.