![]() ![]() The rows, fairly obviously, are chapters. This is the plan for The Mathematics of Love. (Apologies for that being the Dail Mail: the original link has died, and it's the only one I can find to replace it.) ![]() ![]() And this is a link to a whole, glorious collection of other writers' such grids. At the end of this post, there's a link to a generic version of the grid that I use, pulling it about for each novel, for you to help yourself. This, in other words, is how I do it, for you to ignore, adapt or accept, as seems right for you. Now of course there are as many ways to help you plan a novel as there are writers, so for once in a post I'm not trying to encompass all the possible processes. And before I knew where I was, three people had asked me for the spreadsheet file I use. I mentioned the way that I plan my novels, because it's also a way you can re-plan them when revisions get structural. Coloured highlighters were mentioned, also ways of making sure the baby didn't get thrown out with the unwanted half of the bathwater, and so on. Much discussion ensued, because the issue is partly about getting the new stuff right in itself, partly about weaving it into the existing stuff, and partly about making sure she's fished the bones of the old subplot out completely, so that readers don't choke on them. The main plot is great, but one of the subplots needs to go, and the other doesn't work, so it's a case of cutting one, replacing the other, and knitting the whole book back up together again. A friend has just had feedback from a publisher who wants to buy her book. ![]()
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