Writing Excuses 10.30: Q&A on Middles, with Marie Brennan
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How to Weave a Plot and Subplot Thread
Marie Lu Stout: Do you have any interesting methods for organizing, developing, and interweaving plot and subplot threads? And then there's a follow up to this, which is even after the brainstorming outlining prewriting, how much do you weave in your head versus what you write in your outline notes? Oh geez, that's an entire episode. Well, the thing that the reason I think this one is good is that a lot of the stuff we talk about really is geared for people who are outliners. Yeah. It's actually interesting that they use the verb weave because all of my metaphors for writing our textile based.
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