Almost everything I write is structured like either a mystery or a thriller, hopefully without cheating.
By a third of the way through, I know how it *has* to end--but that doesn't mean I have any idea how to get there. My general plotting technique is to break things until I have no idea how the characters are going to fix them, and then see how they wiggle out of it this time. (Usually, not without losing some skin.)
And I always find out that the lizard brain has a much better idea of how the story goes than I do, and will salt in little things that turn out to be important later. (Little things like, entire subplots.)
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Date: 2004-12-07 02:03 pm (UTC)Almost everything I write is structured like either a mystery or a thriller, hopefully without cheating.
By a third of the way through, I know how it *has* to end--but that doesn't mean I have any idea how to get there. My general plotting technique is to break things until I have no idea how the characters are going to fix them, and then see how they wiggle out of it this time. (Usually, not without losing some skin.)
And I always find out that the lizard brain has a much better idea of how the story goes than I do, and will salt in little things that turn out to be important later. (Little things like, entire subplots.)
And hey, if they don't work I can cut them--