WIP Archives - Author Kristin L. Gray

SCBWI Work-in-Progress Awards

Is your children’s or YA manuscript ready to share with the world? The SCBWI Work-in-Progress Awards are now open! Click here for more information.

Good luck!

Kristin

Subplots are plot lines given to different characters.

Layers are plot lines given to the same character.

In Writing the Breakout Novel, Donald Mass notes that breakout fiction makes extensive use of plot layers. Real life is complex, so

Mandy and I plan to shrink her WIP this week.

Shrink 200-plus pages to oh, I don’t know, thirty-five.

Author Darcy Pattison, owner of the Fiction Notes, persuades writers to shrink their novels in her book Novel Metamorphosis… Read More