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[extrapenguin]

Spaceship rental has acquired a third completely separate and disjointed plot thread, and while I know where to put scene 3.1 in the order, and it's nice that I have that to come in play in the back half, I am tearing my head out right now with scene ordering. (It is easier to do it in outline before one has written the whole damn thing.)

I foresee playing around with pieces of paper on a corkboard. Argh.

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[extrapenguin]

Having put up everything on a pinboard, I think that my general structure is one that starts with the main plot and then fans out a bit to include first White Thumbtacks Thread (with a slow release/long payoff), then Red Thumbtacks and Blue Thumbtacks Threads. Red has a resolution (but could do with some post-climax dénouement and fluff scenes), White still needs one, and Blue is more entangled with Red and Main, but does need more scenes at the end and some sort of resolution, though that'd be easy enough to arrange, given the main plotline. Hmm...

[firestar]

*chinhands in fascination* I don't think I've ever written anything complicated enough for pinboards and multiple threads. Sounds like you things in hand, though. <3

[extrapenguin]

This is the first time I've needed them! It's sort of exciting in a way.

[firestar]

♥ Writer growth. <3