Bounce around your plotting levels to produce the best story

The danger of diving too deep into your story’s details, or soaring too high-up into your story plotting, is staying stuck at the same level for too long.

To write the best story possible you have to bounce around—jump up and down the levels, from the bird’s eye view of the entire story to the main columns (parts of acts, in conventional terms), to the individual scenes, to the littlest bits of the scenes—beats—and then back up again, high into the sky.

This takes practice. And patience. And p...