Questions, questions

I was tootling through a how-to-write site the other day going “yep, nope, nope, yep” when I got to the part where they talked about plotting, and found four pages of questions to help writers “get unstuck” and “come up with great new plot twists.”

Now, when I am plotting, I ask myself a lot of questions. And when I am plot-noodling for other people, I ask them a lot of questions. So the general idea of four pages of plot questions was not at all problematic for me.

The problem was the kind...