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Completing Your Novel Plot
At some point in drafting a novel, you
will probably see the need to add more actions or events to complete the
plot. You know the story isn’t
complete. You may need to rethink where
your story is going. Try this process:
- Write a
brief summary of each chapter. This is
time-consuming, but once you have concise summaries, you will be able to
see your novel’s overall direction more easily. Sure, you can read and reread your novel
itself, but sometimes you can forget what happened first, second,
etc.
- Brainstorm
more conflicts to complete the plot. I do say
“brainstorm” because you can’t be sure these conflicts will work until you
get back to the writing itself.
Will they work once you dig back into your characters? Would your character do this, do
that? Hard to say. Don’t force it. But try it out, and maybe your character
will end up doing something even more interesting and compelling.
- Decide where
these conflicts go. Here again, this is tentative. You might decide to include a given
conflict in Chapter Three, but really it will work out better in Chapter
Six or Seven, or Ten. But for now,
write down where the conflict might go.
Choose a colored type (red maybe?) so it’s easy to spot these
tentative places to include tentative new conflicts. - Add your new
conflicts to your novel manuscript. It might be
best to re-read your novel up to the point where you intend to add new
material—to get back in the swing of the work. To get a sense for the mood and tone at
this point. Once you’re ready to
include new conflict material, let your imagination take over. Get back into your characters. See them, hear them speak, let it
happen.
Plot usually doesn’t fall out of the sky
and arrive fully intact. It takes doing
and redoing. This is only one process
you might follow. You might need to go
through this process one or more times.
Once you’ve done so, re-read your entire novel and see if it’s
complete. Don’t depend entirely on
logic. Does it sound and feel complete?
Jack Smith is author of the novel Hog to Hog, which won the George Garrett Fiction Prize (Texas Review Press. 2008), and is also the author of Write and Revise for Publication: A 6-Month Plan for Crafting an Exceptional Novel and Other Works of Fiction, published earlier this year by Writer’s Digest
Over the years, Smith’s short stories have appeared in North American Review, Night Train, Texas Review, and Southern Review, to name a few. He has also written some 20 articles for Novel & Short Story Writer’s Market, as well as a dozen or so pieces for The Writer.
He has published reviews in numerous literary journals, including Ploughshares, Georgia Review, Missouri Review, Prairie Schooner, American Review, Mid-American Review, and the Iowa Review.
Smith taught full-time at North Central Missouri College for some 24 years, and has also served as Fiction Editor for The Green Hills Literary Lantern, an online literary journal published by Truman State University, for over two decades. Learn more about Jack and his work in the November 1 edition of PIF magazine.
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