With the first two novels, I made up the story as I went. In both cases, this resulted in finished drafts that lacked any real plot. While I’m personally not big on traditional “story arcs” (more on that another time), a novel does need some sort of reason for being in order to keep a reader engaged. Both of those manuscripts required a
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Plotting
With the first two novels, I made up the story as I went. In both cases, this resulted in finished drafts that lacked any real plot. While I’m personally not big on traditional “story arcs” (more on that another time), a novel does need some sort of reason for being in order to keep a reader engaged. Both of those manuscripts required a