A Bigger And Better Excuse Dept.

Working on the second draft of the outline forAlways Outnumbered, Never Outgunnedtoday, something occurred to me as I found a detour around a plot roadblock. Time and again I've come up against what looks like plot holes, things that caused me to stop what I was doing and argue with myself. Does this not make sense? Why is it really here in the first place? Should I do something else?

Round and round turns the hamster-wheel, until a day or two later an answer pops out. Sometimes I scrap what...