I can plot like a fiend. I’m really good at it. It’s usually very easy for me. Easy when I know the final scene of a book or a story. I had a final scene for my Old Mars story, but had a feeling placing the action off stage wasn’t going to work. Sure enough Gardner and George told me it didn’t work. They liked the family dynamic and the tensions within the family so I started to rebuild the story around that. But I don’t know the end scene.
I know the problem. I know the emotional crises. I just don’t have the solution. Which means I can’t plot worth a damn right now.
Perhaps inspiration will strike while I sleep.
