Plot Threads – Taming the Kraken

Plot Threads: Taming the Kraken

As I’ve mentioned many times here, I’m neither a plotter nor an outliner. My first draft serves both functions. I’ve called myself a “planster” because there’s always some kind of a plan for the book, even if at the outset it’s as simple as “Police Chief Gordon Hepler has to solve another crime,” or “Two characters are faced with issues that interrupt their lives, but eventually they solve the problem and in doing so, fall in love.”

My writing process tends to...