Showing posts with label Keep Your Plot from Getting Tangles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Keep Your Plot from Getting Tangles. Show all posts

Friday, October 1, 2021

For Writers: 3 Tips to Untangle a Complex Plot


by A.C. Williams @ACW_Author

I have really long hair, and there’s nothing worse than when it gets tangled. Tangles don’t just go away, either. The longer you leave them, the worse they get. And then when you finally take a brush to them, it hurts like the dickens to get them all out. 

A nice personal tidbit, right? But what does that have to do with writing? Well, when I think about tangles and having to invest hours of painful focus to get all the knots out, I think about some of the tangled plot lines I’ve had to edit over the years.