DarkChaplain
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Guy Haley:
Do you ever struggle to come up with a particular plot idea, even when you are envisioning a rough setting and mood, or even characters, you'd like to go for? How do you solve that kind of impasse?
Guy Haley
Holy cow DarkChaplain! 57 days ago? I am so sorry I didn't see this. If you ever ask a question and I don't answer it within a few days, please tweet me!
In reply, yes I do. It's a rare day that I cannot think of a plot at all, but sometimes it is a struggle getting enough plot elements together to create a full novel, or making the elements work as a story.
I'm struggling right now, in fact, trying to finalise the plot for a Sherlock Holmes story. Quite often it's because I have two separate ideas about the way the story should go, but I can't accommodate them both in the plot. Some writers try (I see it a lot in TV shows, actually). It doesn't work. Note, I'm not talking about different plots/subplots here, but two separate, opposing ideas in one plot. The only way through it is to think hard. Sometimes I write and see what happens. Sometimes I sit down and plan it out, usually by moving scene documents around in Scrivener. It can be very frustrating, as it leads to false starts.
In reply, yes I do. It's a rare day that I cannot think of a plot at all, but sometimes it is a struggle getting enough plot elements together to create a full novel, or making the elements work as a story.
I'm struggling right now, in fact, trying to finalise the plot for a Sherlock Holmes story. Quite often it's because I have two separate ideas about the way the story should go, but I can't accommodate them both in the plot. Some writers try (I see it a lot in TV shows, actually). It doesn't work. Note, I'm not talking about different plots/subplots here, but two separate, opposing ideas in one plot. The only way through it is to think hard. Sometimes I write and see what happens. Sometimes I sit down and plan it out, usually by moving scene documents around in Scrivener. It can be very frustrating, as it leads to false starts.
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