by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
I continue to think about Stieg Larsson’s work and I keep thinking that he had some way of structuring his plots (and subplots) that I just don’t have at the moment. But as part of my month-long pause on writing and focus on development and reading, I’m going to try to game out my subplots better.
The reason why I’m pausing writing for February is two fold — one is I was running a little “hot” while writing and I was getting nervous there was a chance I would burn out. Also, I wanted to throw myself into development of all five of the novels to see if I could put myself in a position to just bang out all five first drafts one right after the other.
But it’s the issue of subplots that is really at the forefront of my mind at the moment. I have sold A, B, C and D subplots for the second thriller and now the issue is to intertwine the plots during the course of story. I have it figured out in a macro sense, but in a tactical sense I still have a lot of work to do. But I really need actually get some work done this month.
Anyway, I’ve got an unusual amount of stuff going on this month — at least for me. But whatever happens, I’m going to start writing again full time come March 1st. I just thought I would take a little rest for a few weeks so I can read and development.
