Every so often, somebody asks me how to get to a full plot skeleton. This leads to me asking them a bunch of questions, which they usually find disconcerting, especially since I always start with:
What do you mean by “a full plot skeleton”?
I have to start with this because a lot of the people who ask me about this seem to think that “a full plot skeleton” means a minimum of twenty pages – often more like fifty – outlining the events of every scene in order, including all the subplots. For...
Published on January 22, 2020 04:00