Happy Thanksgiving! Open Mike day matches up with Thanksgiving week this year–so what are the other Americans doing for Turkey Day? I’m staying home, making lobster tails, pesto salad, cranberry bread, and my favorite veggie side dish while taking calls from my spread-out family members. I’ll get
Read more →Braided novels are a specific subset of multiple-viewpoint structure. In a braided novel, there are two or more protagonist characters who each have their own “A” plot-problem, which usually occur over the same time period and which come together in the same (or parallel) climax. The stories
Read more →What is a “B” plot? Like most writing jargon, it depends on who you ask. On the most fundamental level, the A plot is the main storyline, the central problem that, once solved, means the story is over. The dragon is dead/tamed; the war is over; the
Read more →Last week, I talked about some things to do with novellas (besides self-publishing them). Most of them involved ways of making them longer, essentially turning a novella into a novel. I’m going to do a post on the three things I came up with, starting with the
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